pandoc/test/command/md-abbrevs.md
John MacFarlane 0bdcf415e4 Switch from pretty-simple to pretty-show for native output.
Update tests.

Reason:  it turns out that the native output generated by
pretty-simple isn't always readable by the native reader.
According to https://github.com/cdepillabout/pretty-simple/issues/99
it is not a design goal of the library that the rendered values
be readable using 'read'.  This makes it unsuitable for our
purposes.

pretty-show is a bit slower and it uses 4-space indents
(non-configurable), but it doesn't have this serious drawback.
2021-09-28 21:17:53 -07:00

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Pandoc recognizes an abbreviation and inserts a nonbreaking space (among other things, this prevents a sentence-ending space from being inserted in LaTeX output).

% pandoc -t native
Mr. Bob
^D
[ Para [ Str "Mr.\160Bob" ] ]

If you don't want this to happen you can escape the period:

% pandoc -t native
Hi Mr\. Bob
^D
[ Para [ Str "Hi" , Space , Str "Mr." , Space , Str "Bob" ]
]