This is a documentation subpage for Template:Apostrophe. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 81,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.

This template leaves leading space before the apostrophe, unlike the similar ((`)) (no spacing). This template is intended for use with italic text, whereas ((`)) is intended for use with non-italic text. For example:

• The ''Iliad''(('))s vocabulary is archaic.

generates:

• The Iliad's vocabulary is archaic.

with a tiny amount of space before the apostrophe to avoid colliding with the italic d at the end of Iliad.

This template is also similar to ((-')), used to slightly space apart a leading single quote from a surrounding double quotation mark provided by a template parameter in which the content is placed, e.g. the |title= parameter of ((cite web)). The equivalent template when manually placing double quotes around a single-quoted passage is ((" ')); see also (('-)) and ((' ")) for the right-hand side equivalents (parameter and manual, respectively). All of these templates use 0.2 em of spacing, while this template, ((')), uses only 0.1 em of spacing, as does (('s)), which is used for possessives in italics.