On 1/4/2023 11:10 PM, Rik Kabel via ntg-context wrote:
> No change with the latest (2023.01.04).
> 
> Is this a problem with what I am doing, or a bug?
well, it's new and not thtat tested ... we need to specify it

This\optionalspace fails unexpectedly with autoinsertedspace.\par
This\optionalspace \emph{fails unexpectedly} with autoinsertedspace.\par

there can be more variants, like do we want to remove preceding spaces?

we already have:

This\optionalspace, fails unexpectedly with autoinsertedspace.\par
This\optionalspace, \emph{fails unexpectedly} with autoinsertedspace.\par
This\optionalspace fails unexpectedly with autoinsertedspace.\par
This\optionalspace \emph{fails unexpectedly} with autoinsertedspace.\par

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