Symbols near HAML expressions

Question

In HAML I often want to use a tag with punctuation following immediately after the tag. For example, I might want to put something in bold but have a closing bracket. The formatting would look like this: (Example sentence with bold text.)

Note that the 'bold text' is in bold but the period and closing bracket '.)' are not.

The obvious HAML is like this:

(Example sentence with
%span.important bold text
\.)

but this causes an extra space between 'bold text' and '.)'. Here's one way of doing it instead:

(Example sentence with
%span.important bold text
%span>\.)

Where enclosing the '.)' in a span with > makes the space disappear. However, this requires an unnecessary span.

Is there any way of getting the desired output, without the extra span?

Answer 1

That initial code snippet shouldn't work in HAML at all:

(Example sentence with
%b bold text
.)

The third line would result in an Illegal element: classes and ids must have values error. It should be:

(Example sentence with
%b bold text
\.)

However, that just fixes the code error. It still displays the way you're complaining about. I only know of two ways to address it:

1. Just use inline HTML tags in your HAML file: (Example sentence with <b>bold text</b>.)
2. Install maruku (or another markdown gem) and do the following:

:markdown  
  (Example sentence with **bold text**.)