Some paragraphs have leading space(s). E.g.,

<para>  There is some leading space here.</para>

Get rid of it, doing an emacs search/replace for

    <para> +\([^ ]\)

and replacing with

    <para>\1

This can be done globally.

en/handbook/README

@@ -386,3 +386,16 @@ for example,
      (e.g., the BSD Copyright), so you need to sit and bounce on the 'y' or
      'n' key as appropriate for each occurence of a stop.
 
+ 35. Some paragraphs have leading space(s). E.g.,
+
+        <para>  There is some leading space here.</para>
+
+     Get rid of it, doing an emacs search/replace for
+
+        <para> +\([^ ]\)
+
+     and replacing with
+
+        <para>\1
+
+     This can be done globally.