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Re: syntax-table for info


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: syntax-table for info
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:58:16 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)

>>Interesting.  It might be a bit harder in this case though, because you can
>>have an apostrophe at the end of a word, e.g, "two mens' sons", meaning the
>>sons of two men.  So you would also have to check for an apostrophe at the
>>start of the word.
>
>
> .. or a back-quote, as in `kill-word' -- but what about `can't' ?.

Still possible - you usually don't have a word with two apostrophes in
it, hence the leading backquote (which could be also an apostrophe) and
the trailing apostrophe are dropped.  You can do that with `mens'' too.





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