Well, what about plural possessives? For example, fathers' issues, meaning
issues shared by all fathers. Contextual situations are probably the most
difficult for computers to deal with.
Steve
On Saturday 5/3/03 23:58 Terri Pannett wrote:
The best way to know the difference between single quotes and apostrophes is by the context of the document. Words which are possessive, such as father's, sisters' etc and words which are contractions such as don't I'll, we're, etc use apostrophes in them. Quotes within quotes use the single quote. I don't think it would be hard to distinguinguish between the single quote and the apostrophe, even if the rules were changed so dot 3 could be used for both.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California
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