On 04/06/2021 23:05, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
[...]
> 
> Watch out for  input like
> 
> <p>The boy<em> splshed </em>through the puddles!</p>
> and,
> <p>It was very un<i>convent</i><b>ion</b>al to have to face a fully-
> charged nun.</p>

The first is very common from users on systems where highlighting a word
by double-click also highlights the following space. And carelessness
with the mouse or arrow keys is frequent.

I once asked someone from a wordprocessor dev team what an italic space
looked like but they didn't understand.

> (I admit i didn't try Peter's template on these cases; however, that 
> they are unusual does not make them unumportant).

I don't think the first type is unusual at all, alas. The italics in the
second are fine, but one would wonder at the bold.

Peter