Index: htmldoc-1.9.18/htmldoc/ps-pdf.cxx
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--- htmldoc-1.9.18.orig/htmldoc/ps-pdf.cxx
+++ htmldoc-1.9.18/htmldoc/ps-pdf.cxx
@@ -5234,7 +5234,7 @@ parse_paragraph(tree_t *t,	/* I - Tree t
       if (temp->markup != MARKUP_A)
         break;
 
-    if (temp != NULL && temp->markup == MARKUP_NONE && temp->data[0] == ' ')
+    if (temp != NULL && temp->markup == MARKUP_NONE && temp->data[0] == ' ' && temp->data[1])
     {
       // Drop leading space...
       for (dataptr = temp->data; *dataptr; dataptr ++)