On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
The definition of \cventry is in the moderncvbody?.sty files. There are five of these, which I guess are used with various options. Anyway, they all contain code like:
Riki, Thanks for the pointer; I didn't know to grep for cventry. The .sty files with the extra period are in moderncvbodyi.sty and moderncvbodyii.sty. I commented out those lines and replaced them without the leading period. This did the trick. It put a comma after each paper and presentation title, including a couple that end with question marks, but I can live with that. I doubt anyone reading my CV will notice or comment on it. After all, no one's commented on the double periods, either. :-) Much appreciated, Rich