Semicolon adding extra space

[Nhapsie]

Semicolon after letters adds an extra space, at least on my machine. This is seen in titles especially.

[dcpurton]

Please include a MWE for all bug reports even if you think it isn't needed.

Begin with \documentclass and end with \end{document}. Include the bib entry inline using the filecontents package.

[dcpurton]

I can't reproduce this. Both the automatic and manual citation look the same in this example.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{test,
  author = {Author},
  title = {Title; Title},
  location = {Location},
  publisher = {Publisher},
  date = {2018}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[style=sbl]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\raggedright
\frenchspacing
\begin{document}
\cite{test}

Author, \emph{Title; Title} (Location: Publisher, 2018)
\printbibliography
Author. \emph{Title; Title.} Location: Publisher, 2018.
\end{document}

[Nhapsie]

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@incollection{Birch1995,
author = {Birch, Bruce C.},
title = {Divine Character and the Formation of Moral Community in the Book of Exodus},
pages = {119-135},
series = {Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series},
shortseries = {JSOTSup},
number = {207},
booktitle = {The Bible in Ethics: The Second Sheffield Colloquium},
editor = {Rogerson, John W. and Davies, Margaret and Carroll R., M. Daniel},
location = {Sheffield},
publisher = {Sheffield Academic Press},
date = {1995},}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[style=sbl]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\raggedright
\frenchspacing
\begin{document}
\cite{Birch1995}

Please check semicolon in booktitle. Also check the output of a document I'm working on below.

I don't know if it's just me, but Times New Roman shows the difference between single space and double space more clearly. Colon and semicolon appear to be followed by double space by both titles in this snapshot.

[dcpurton]

I think it's just because the italics and a ‘T’ after the colon make the space look bigger. You get the same if you manually type out the citation.

Compare this output:

\documentclass{article}
\raggedright
\frenchspacing
\begin{document}
Sheffield: Sheffield

\emph{Sheffield: Sheffield}

The: The

\emph{The: The}
\end{document}

[Nhapsie]

Hmmm it also happens with other letters in the snapshot. It appears to me that LaTeX is producing a bit of an extra space after colon and semicolon, by itself. This may be seen by other users as optically irrelevant, but it is aesthetically noticeable.

[dcpurton]

You could ask on stackexchange and see if you get any suggestions. I'd avoid adding kerning to you bib file. When you ask the question, separate booktitle and booksubtitle into separate fields.

[dcpurton]

Although booktitle = {The Bible in Ethics: \kern-1pt The Second Sheffield Colloquium} does appear to work.