An apostroph for omission

U članku se daje jednostavan pregled upotrebe i neupotrebe izostavnika u hrvatskom jeziku i preporučuje da se on piše samo tamo gdje se zaista radi o izostavljanju jednoga slova ili više njih po potrebi gdje takav signal o izostavljanju slova zaista može pomoći u razumijevanju.The article gives data about uses of the apostrophe in writing of texts of various kinds in Croatian language. Data from Croatian orthography handbooks of last century and a half are compared. The apostrophe is an important signal about omitted letters only when a word is recognizable and therefore the sign realy can help in understanding, otherwise it is redundant, because it hampers the reading