Feature Proposal: Dealing with punctuation and font changes

Motivation

The current rules for handling punctuation that border a font change sometimes make for either stilted sentences or difficult rewording. Coming up with a way to allow punctuation to "cuddle" with alternate font sections is valuable.

Description and Documentation

Find a way to allow punctuation to "cuddle" with alternate font text.

Choices include:

• fixing the regexp expressions to include different punctuation characters.
  • there are I18N issues here
  • there are backward-compatibility issues here
• find a way to say 'just before rendering, eat whitespace around me'

Examples

It would be nice to be able to write things like:

• pre-=progname=
• =progname='s behavior

Impact and Available Solutions

Implementation

-- Contributors: HarlanStenn

Discussion

-- HarlanStenn - 01 Apr 2007