asciidoc - Apostrophe at end (or beginning) of word

Question

How can I get an apostrophe at the beginning or the end of the word? This would be necessary for old-style

'Tis

instead of

It's

Or the apostrophe at the end of a word in plural, like

arguments'

Of course I could also just type

arguments’

but this defeats the purpose of using markdown.

Edit: It does not seem to me that there is a defined inline quotation style with single quote at beginning and end, like

'some sort of quotation'

so it shouldn't be too much of a stretch?

Answer 1

我认为您能做的最好的事情就是像您所做的那样继续指定单右引号符号，但您不必使用数字符号 ( ’)。AsciiDoc 有一个预定义的符号 ( {rsquo})，所以它不是那么难看。

.Examples of Single-Apostrophe Notation
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|===
|Use this |To get this
|\'italics' |'italics'
|\'\'single-quoted'' (two single apostrophes each) |''single-quoted''
|it's |it's (automatically formatted)
|its' |its' (ugly)
|'tis |'tis (ugly)
|its'\{empty\} |its'{empty} (still ugly)
|\{empty\}'tis |{empty}'tis (still ugly)
|its\{rsquo\} **{nbsp} <- This is what you want** |its{rsquo}
|\{rsquo\}tis **{nbsp} <- And this** |{rsquo}tis
|===