I'm preparing an epub and mobi with Sigil of a book that contains both English and Sanskrit transliteration.
The Liberation font has been successful so far in accurately producing glyphs such as m, r and t with dots under them.
It is not clear why, but on some instances of the Sanskrit transliteration extra horizontal spaces appear next to some of the text, at the start or finish of some of the Sanskrit.
I've checked the html and there's nothing there I can see that would be causing this. Has anyone seen this type of behavior? Any suggestions as to why it might be occurring?
By way of example, I'm pasting here some of the html in question and I'm attaching a file of a screenshot showing the spurious space in a Kindle for PC reader.
<p>In conclusion I wish to quote just a line from India’s greatest poet, Rabindranath Tagore. He sang, “<span class="sanskrit_ital">Simar majhe nashibo</span>. . .”</p>
Thanks in advance for any help.