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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2021-03-04 16:01:40 -0800
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2021-03-04 16:02:46 -0800
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Relax `--abbreviations` rules so that a period isn't required.
Partially addresses #7124.
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system default, use
`pandoc --print-default-data-file=abbreviations`. The only
use pandoc makes of this list is in the Markdown reader.
- Strings ending in a period that are found in this list will
- be followed by a nonbreaking space, so that the period will
- not produce sentence-ending space in formats like LaTeX.
+ Strings found in this list will be followed by a nonbreaking
+ space, and the period will not produce sentence-ending space
+ in formats like LaTeX. The strings may not contain spaces.
[`pandocfilters`]: https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters
[PHP]: https://github.com/vinai/pandocfilters-php