# Discourse Quoting Glitch
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/discourse-quoting-glitch/243
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [July 25, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/discourse-quoting-glitch/243 "2021-07-25T20:22:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/discourse-quoting-glitch/243/1 "2021-07-25T20:22:43Z")
I [wrote](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/classical-liberalism-cf-article/158/3):
@S_Emiya quoted it:
The extra space between the italics and the comma is a glitch with Discourse’s quoting feature (select text and then click quote). I’ve seen it before. It can be manually fixed (delete the space) and isn’t that big a deal. Also, I guess it wouldn’t happen if you included trailing punctuation within your italics or bold.
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### Author:  [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/discourse-quoting-glitch/243/2 "2021-07-25T20:31:08Z")
Looks like they’ve been aware of it for a while but just haven’t fixed it yet
> **[Quoting italicized text followed by punctuation injects an extra space](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-italicized-text-followed-by-punctuation-injects-an-extra-space/159353)**
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> Example (pasted from another forum): when I mention a book like The Great Gatsby or a movie like Breaker Morant , and when someone later quotes that passage, Raw: # Original: when I mention a book like \*The Great Gatsby\* or a movie like...