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

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Am 01.11.2021 um 11:43 schrieb Carsten Bormann:
> 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.)
> ...

And, consequently, all that code should be removed.

Putting workarounds into the XML source to address issues in the TXT
output certainly is not a good idea.

Best regards, Julian