[TxMt] Re: LaTeX apostrophes

[Jacob Rus]

Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Sam Aaron wrote:
>> Ah, ok. It's just that TextMate makes all my embedded apostrophes 
>> bright green (I'm using the VibrantInk theme), which looks a little 
>> odd. To my mind, an apostrophe is neither of these scopes in the 
>> example I illustrated:
> 
> Problem is, that TM can't really tell between "a backtick followed by an 
> apostrophe so that what they enclose is a string" from "a backtick 
> followed a bit later by an apostrophe that's unrelated to it".
> 
> I currently removed the matches for both the backticks and the closing 
> apostrophes.

How does LaTeX tell the difference?