[TxMt] LaTeX Grammar and Single Quote Strings

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Aug 3, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

> Small problem with the LaTeX grammar's handling of single quote
> strings. The following:
>
>         'tis suppos'
>
> as it occurs in:
>
>         'tis suppos'd
>
> gets scoped as invalid.illegal.string.quoted.single.latex. LaTeX,
> however, has no problem with such constructions. Perhaps this would
> be difficult to fix and the problem is, in any case, rare. (I only
> hit upon it writing a Hume lecture.) Just thought I would pass it on.

The only solution I can think of, and it is not a bad solution at  
that, is to simply not mark '...' as invalid string. After all, we  
don't mark `...' as string either ;). Any objections to making this  
change?

> Best, Mark

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College