[cgreek:00290] Re: ' in ibycus4

[Alexej Kryukov <basileia@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 July 2003 13:35, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:
> Alexej Kryukov writes:
> > But single quotation marks are never used in Greek...
>
> Is it fairly reasonable to assume that the sequence {'} means:
> 1. a Greek apostrophe if it appears in a Greek context, and
> 2. a closing quotation mark in a non-Greek context?
>
> If so, I will write codes in that way.

Generally speaking, I don't think that creating a special
conversion rule for combinations like {'} or {}' is a good idea. You 
can simply convert ' to the Greek apostrophe, but this conversion
should be performed only when all other rules containing
' as their part are already processed. E. g. if all occurences
of a' are replaced with alpha acute etc., all remaining
' should be treated as Greek apostrophe. In Latin
mode we should convert ' to right quotation mark, but,
again, only after processing all other conversion rules 
with ' (at least '' should be converted to right *double*
quotation mark.)