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• • April 15, 2024 at 10:05 am #14402529
    Jerad

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    Monday, April 15, 2024

    With InDesign, I can use non-breaking spaces when typsetting books to ensure that single letter capital “I” shows up on the next line rather than at the end of the line. I also like titles such as Mr., Mrs., Dr., etc., to be followed by the name, without the name breaking onto the next line. However, I have noticed that for many fonts, the non-breaking space after the “I” is fine in width, but, for some reason, the non-breaking space after “Mr., Mrs., Dr.,” etc., the space seems to be somewhat wider, barely anything, but enough so that I notice it. I am not using the “fixed width” non-breaking space but just the standard non-breaking space. An example is shown in the attached images. The font is Janson.

    https://www.centipedepress.com/newsletters/lamsleybreak.jpg
    with breaking space

    https://www.centipedepress.com/newsletters/lamsleynonbreak.jpg
    with non-breaking space

    You can see the rule I put right in front of “Stephen Halifax”. Thank you for any help or advice!

  • April 15, 2024 at 10:08 am #14402531
    David Blatner

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    My first thought it that the character may actually be a different character in the font. Try selecting it and looking at the unicode value in the Info panel (it’s the code with the x in it). If that’s the case, the font designer may simply have made a mistake or changed the character width for some reason.

    You could use grep styles to apply a character style with a very slight adjustment (like 98% horizontal scaling) to that character perhaps.

    5 Cool Things You Can Do with GREP Styles

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