too wide spaces in Hoefler Text

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Friedrich Vosberg

Hiho.

(MacOS X 10.3.2, office:mac latest release)

The alt+space (and the shift+alt+space too) in Hoefler Text is too wide.
When I use other fonts the alt+space is smaller than a regular space,
but not in Hoefler Text. What can I do to get small and unbreakable
spaces?

I've tried to determine a formatted AutoCorrection entry for alt+space
by defining the space I want to get as 50 % scaled and making alt+space
for shortcut. But this failed because it's impossible to determine an
AutoCorrection for a space.

Somebody told me to make an AutoText entry and determine alt+space
shortcut to use it. But I don't know how to make a shortcut for an
AutoText entry.

Any hints?

Thanks and Greets.
Friedrich
 
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Dayo Mitchell

Tools| Customize, Commands or Keyboard--you will see that the categories
listing on the left includes AutoText at the bottom, so you can assign a
keyboard shortcut the same way as for any command.

For more info on AutoText:
http://members.verizon.net/~vze27sds/autotext.htm
This article will soon be added to the general page on using Word well at
http://word.mvps.org/index.html

Conceivably someone else will be able to address the root cause of your
problem, that Hoefler spaces are too wide--I assume that you have checked to
make sure this is true in print and not just an effect of the display?

Dayo
 
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Friedrich Vosberg

Hiho.
Conceivably someone else will be able to address the root cause of your
problem, that Hoefler spaces are too wide--I assume that you have checked to
make sure this is true in print and not just an effect of the display?
Click to expand...

Of cource. The failure appeares both on display and printed. It seems to
be a bug of the TrueType font.

Thanks and Greets.
Friedrich
 
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Elliott Roper

Friedrich said:
Hiho.


Of cource. The failure appeares both on display and printed. It seems to
be a bug of the TrueType font.
Click to expand...

You are right. That non breaking space is way too wide. A dirty work
around would be to make the space in a different font. You could do
that in auto text I think, with a character style as part of the auto
text entry. Try copy and paste into the autocorrect entry.
 
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