Typesetting: Non-breaking space with justified alignment

[Marcel Dijkstra]

When writing a scientific article often two columns are used with justified
alignment of the text over the width of the column. A non-breaking space
(Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar) can be used to prevent separate but related words from
breaking. The words are kept together and are placed on the next line.
However, the non-breaking space has a fixed width and does not justify. It
would be useful to have a non-breaking space that justifies. For instance
with names “John Smith†or references “literature [2]â€. In other cases it is
still useful to have a non-justifying non-breaking space, for instance with
physical values “10 mm†or “30 mphâ€.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I agree. I often use nonbreaking spaces, but the fixed width is sometimes
very obvious and not always desirable. It helps if you use hyphenation to
avoid especially loose lines.

When writing a scientific article often two columns are used with justified
alignment of the text over the width of the column. A non-breaking space
(Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar) can be used to prevent separate but related words from
breaking. The words are kept together and are placed on the next line.
However, the non-breaking space has a fixed width and does not justify. It
would be useful to have a non-breaking space that justifies. For instance
with names “John Smith†or references “literature [2]â€. In other cases it is
still useful to have a non-justifying non-breaking space, for instance with
physical values “10 mm†or “30 mphâ€.

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