curiousdannii-testing
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2 years ago 557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:
Comment by otistdog :
Oh, how foolish of me. I see that this is intended to be interpreted as:
say "[apostrophe]" OR say "[']"
... and that's my signal that I should be sleeping instead of trying to proofread! 
A small note, though – it appears that the bold font is turned off at the forward slash in [apostrophe/']. This made it look a little more like a stray-characters typo to me.
If you want to improve the clarity all the way to the "for dummies" level, you may wish to write out each acceptable phrase in full.
Reported by : otistdog
Description :
The chapter reads, in part:
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The rule looks odd at first, but turns out to be very practical. The only problem arises if we need an apostrophe at the start or end of a word, or a double inside one. Again, substitutions can fix this:
say "[apostrophe/']"
This text substitution expands to a single quotation mark, avoiding Inform's ordinary rule of converting literal single quotation marks to double at the edges of words.
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There are extraneous characters ("/'") in the example substitution ("[apostrophe/']").
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Additional information :
imported from: [Mantis 1785] substitution for apostrophe shown incorrectly in callout box for WWI 5.2