Reply To: fixed-width vs. regular nonbreak spaces

Hi Matt,

I had the same problem. Moreover I found that the width of the Non Breaking Space (NBS) varies relative to the normal space as I change the font. I have for example a font where NBS has almost zero width!

This experience gave me an idea: maybe NBS is a separate glyph in the font and Indesigen simply uses this glyph when you insert an NBS into the text. And voilá: Unicode character U+00A0 is often referred as Non Breaking Space. I checked this defective font (that I mentioned above) in Fontlab and the glyph U+00A0 had a width of about 20% of the normal space width. After copying and pasting normal space over this glyph the font started to behave correctly. Of course after editing the font and saving on top of the old one you have to uninstall-reinstall it, and clear the Application’s font-cache. Or simply restart your computer.

So edit your font or choose another font and NBS-es will be okay.

Best,
Tamás