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Normalize invisible formatting on single spaces

See Weaver, Ch 1: b05_ch01.docx

Low priority improvement for later.

Sometimes, there will be single spaces that are formatted differently than the surrounding text. In this example, there are 2 bold spaces. While this doesn't affect how it looks to the eye, it leads to cluttered formatting under the hood.

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Can you implement a rule that looks for tags that

  1. enclose only a space or tab, and
  2. denote bold, underline, or italics

And then scrub these out in a cleanup step?