Non Breaking Space is smaller than regular space when text is full justified

Hi Shlomit Heymann:

Two more thoughts:

1. It is typical to set em dashes with either no spaces on either side, or thin spaces on both sides. I personally prefer thin spaces, but whatever you pick, consistency is the key.
2. You can define a GREP style to locate a word followed by an em dash (with or without spaces) and automatically assign a No Break character style to it.

~Barb

It may be because InDesign is sometimes too smart ...

According to the official documentation, all a non-breaking space does is to prohibit breaking on it, but for the rest it should act as a regular space. However, what if there is a glyph (which could be an image) provided for the non-breaking space in your current font? Then it must use this character, and its associated width!

See https://indesignsecrets.com/topic/fixed-width-vs-regular-nonbreak-spaces for the same problem.

Editing the font and removing the non-breaking space from it is quite a radical solution, but without doing this you can't use that code. Instead, I suggest using No Break over the words that you want to keep together.

The width of a space and non breaking space would be defined in the font, not the application, but I’m not seeing the problem. What’s the font? Could you share your example?

Hi Schlomit,

it's very strange: the nonbreaking space should effectively have the same width as the regular space except if you use a fixed with nonbreaking space. What version of Garamond do you use?