Re: [Rfc-markdown] Prevent double space after initial?

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2021-11-01, at 11:21, Lars Eggert <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to prevent a double space being inserted in the ASCII rendering of an name containing an initial, e.g., make
> 
> 	W. Richard ("Rich") Stevens
> 
> render as above instead of
> 
> 	W.  Richard ("Rich") Stevens

(In the TXT, presumably — sentence spacing doesn’t survive HTML.)

If this is text you have input, you can replace the space after the dot with a non-breaking space (*).  
Can’t make an example for the input, because my mail composer swallows non-breaking spaces and replaces them with plain spaces, but the result looks like this:

With SP
   W.  Richard ("Rich") Stevens
With NBSP
   W. Richard ("Rich") Stevens

No, I don’t know why xml2rfc doesn’t apply the usual rules for keyboarding sentence ends for sentence spacing.
(Probably because enough people hate sentence spacing that any energy for a fix dissipated.)

Grüße, Carsten

(*) Depending on whether you want to keep allowing a line break here (which I would consider wrong, but tastes vary), you alternatively can insert a zero-width space U+200B right after the dot.  That actually survives Apple mail:

W. Richard ("Rich") Stevens
➔
W.​ Richard ("Rich") Stevens

Maybe I should insert these automatically after dots followed by exactly one single space(**)?  The RFC editor will hate me… :-)

(**) These otherwise don’t occur in the “new line for new sentence” keyboarding style.