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

I think the best you can do is to go ahead and specify the single-right-quote symbol as you have done, but you don't have to use the numeric notation (’). AsciiDoc has a predefined symbol for that ({rsquo}), so it's not quite so ugly.

.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
|===