diff --git a/scripts/generate_site.py b/scripts/generate_site.py
index d48f812de..e9d0dec0e 100644
--- a/scripts/generate_site.py
+++ b/scripts/generate_site.py
@@ -2547,7 +2547,9 @@ def _emulator_description(markdown: str, key: str, title: str, intro: str) -> st
     its profile table when the profile names no system."""
     notes = re.search(r"<summary>Technical notes</summary>\s*\n\n(.+?)(?:\n\n|$)", markdown, re.S)
     if not intro and notes:
-        sentence = re.split(r"(?<=\.)\s", _plain_markdown(notes[1]), maxsplit=1)[0]
+        # An initial is no sentence end: hcl's read "open-source port of E."
+        sentence = re.split(r"(?<![\s(][A-Z]\.)(?<=\.)\s", _plain_markdown(notes[1]),
+                            maxsplit=1)[0]
         intro = f"{title}: {sentence[:1].lower()}{sentence[1:]}"
     if not intro:
         row = {name: _plain_markdown(value) for name, value in re.findall(
diff --git a/tests/test_site_search.py b/tests/test_site_search.py
index 32dbcd683..051765332 100644
--- a/tests/test_site_search.py
+++ b/tests/test_site_search.py
@@ -245,6 +245,16 @@ class Descriptions(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(gs._page_description(body, key, "DaedalusX64"),
                          "DaedalusX64 emulates Nintendo 64. Every file it reads comes with the app.")
 
+    def test_an_initial_does_not_end_the_sentence(self) -> None:
+        """hcl's description was "Hydra Castle Labyrinth: open-source port of E."."""
+        body = ("# Hydra Castle Labyrinth\n\n<details>\n<summary>Technical notes</summary>\n\n"
+                "Open-source port of E. Hashimoto's 2008 freeware Metroidvania. It reads "
+                "its data folder.\n\n</details>\n")
+        text = gs._emulator_description(body, "emulators/hcl.md", "Hydra Castle Labyrinth", "")
+        self.assertTrue(text.startswith("Hydra Castle Labyrinth: open-source port of E. "
+                                        "Hashimoto's 2008 freeware Metroidvania."), text)
+        self.assertNotIn("It reads", text)
+
     def test_a_platform_page_says_what_it_gives(self) -> None:
         """All 18 ended on the label of a link a snippet cannot follow,
         "ROCKNIX website.", and never named the BIOS files or their folder."""