preventing automatic link creation

Do you find that some simple text like VB.NET gets automatically turned into a bogus clickable URL by twine?  Here are a few simple hacks to prevent that, so that twine will leave it as simple text.

One very simple method is to leave a space after the dot, like "VB. NET".  That does not look as good as it could.

Next option, replace the dot with something other that the period character.  The html character entities sdot and middot are usable.  I have also seen * used: VB⋅NET, VB·NET, VB*NET

The best option I have found adds the zero width joiner character entity (zwj) after the dot.  In most browsers, that is completely invisible, but prevents twine from thinking the text is a URL.  In Google chrome for some reason, there is a minor visual artifact where the character is inserted: VB.‍NET

HTML character entities are created by putting the ampersand (&) character before, and a semi-colon (;) after the character entity name.  In a twine note, you need to do that in the html edit window.  In a comment, just type the character entity right where you want it in the text. The zero width joiner would be entered as ‍