I'm typesetting some proceedings which include a good number of round
brackets followed by punctuation. This often occurs in the body of the
text, but also in the hand coded bibliographies, e.g.:

) plus . , ; :

The trouble is that excessive space is often introduced between the
bracket and the punctuation. I can control the excessive space that
sometimes occurs between ) and . by using )\periods[1], although this

ruins the protrusion if it occurs at the end of a line.

Does anyone know how I might be able to somehow "tie" ) to . , ; : so
that the distance remains reasonable, and so that protrusion still

works?

Best, Richard

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