From 14392e9a73563b0dc4622c0313b6131af725d0ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: RavSinghChandan <ravchandan15@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 07:24:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Keep the space before the number in numbering extra captions

---
 CHANGES.md                   |  1 +
 lib/markdown2.py             |  2 ++
 test/tm-cases/numbering.text | 12 ++++++------
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 10aabd33..25b5a158 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## python-markdown2 2.5.6 (not yet released)
 
+- [pull #770] Fix `numbering` extra dropping the space between the caption text and the number (`Table1` instead of `Table 1`)
 - [pull #762] Speed up documents with many links by skipping the backslash-escape scan for text without a backslash
 - [pull #748] Speed up `_unescape_special_chars` by skipping text with no hashes and dropping the full-text comparison per pass (#635)
 - [pull #749] URL-encode destinations generated by the `link-patterns` extra (#55)
diff --git a/lib/markdown2.py b/lib/markdown2.py
index d6285404..3f6159ed 100755
--- a/lib/markdown2.py
+++ b/lib/markdown2.py
@@ -4132,6 +4132,8 @@ def run(self, text: str):
                 continue
             counter = match.group(1)
             text_before = match.group(2).strip()
+            if text_before:
+                text_before += ' '
             ref_id = match.group(3)
             text_after = match.group(4)
             number = counters.get(counter, 1)
diff --git a/test/tm-cases/numbering.text b/test/tm-cases/numbering.text
index 627eef8f..43d5a33b 100644
--- a/test/tm-cases/numbering.text
+++ b/test/tm-cases/numbering.text
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 
 <p><img src="https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-17-at-6-57-13-pm.png?w=807"</img></p>
 
-<figcaption class="imagenumbers" id="counter-ref-rickroll">Image 1: Let's Rick Roll You</figcaption>
+[#imagenumbers Image @rickroll: Let's Rick Roll You]
 
-<p>And we can refer to the rickrolling image as Image <a class="imagenumbers" href="#counter-ref-rickroll">1</a>.  There is a second image of something else</p>
+And we can refer to the rickrolling image as Image [@rickroll].  There is a second image of something else
 
 <p><img src="https://wonderifyouwonder.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/anchor.jpg"></img></p>
 
-<figcaption class="imagenumbers" id="counter-ref-kent">Figure 2: I for one welcome our new insect overlords</figcaption>
+[#imagenumbers Figure @kent: I for one welcome our new insect overlords]
 
-<p>So we can refer to Figure <a class="imagenumbers" href="#counter-ref-rickroll">1</a> and Figure <a class="imagenumbers" href="#counter-ref-kent">2</a> separately.</p>
+So we can refer to Figure [@rickroll] and Figure [@kent] separately.
 
 <h1>Here is a table</h1>
 
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
 </tbody>
 </table>
 
-<figcaption class="tablenumbers" id="counter-ref-exampletable">Table 1: An example table</figcaption>
+[#tablenumbers Table @exampletable: An example table]
 
-<p>Which we can refer to as table <a class="tablenumbers" href="#counter-ref-exampletable">1</a></p>
+Which we can refer to as table [@exampletable]
 
 <p>And so we are done.</p>
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