Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong

I’d replace the R. Z with R. Z.  
OK, that may be hard to see (an nbsp, U+00A0).
(Actually, it’s not there, as my mail reader swallows it.  Wow.)

Any software that consumes plaintext text should follow the age old convention that a sentence is ended by a period followed by a newline, or a period followed by two spaces.  
Unfortunately, this simple rule has fallen out of fashion…

Grüße, Carsten

> On 27. Feb 2021, at 03:44, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> 
> The toolchain to build draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh produces XML
> that contains:
> …
>          <li>PGP - Pretty Good Privacy.
> PGP is a family of software systems developed by Philip R. Zimmermann from which OpenPGP is based.</li>
> …
> 
> xml2rfc renders this to text as:
> 
> …
>   *  PGP - Pretty Good Privacy.  PGP is a family of software systems
>      developed by Philip R.  Zimmermann from which OpenPGP is based.
> …
> 
> It looks like it is assuming that a period (.) ends a sentence, and that
> two spaces should follow each sentence.  It is correct about the . after
> "Privacy", but it is wrong about the . after "R". :(
> 
> This is kind of a dumb nit-pick, but it was noticed during a review on
> the mailing list.
> 
> Is there a recommended way to fix this?  What XML input would produce a
> .txt with only one space after the "R."?
> 
>   --dkg
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