In typography, a thin space is a space character that is usually ​1⁄5 or ​1⁄6 of an em in width. It is used to add a narrow space, such as between nested quotation marks or to separate glyphs that interfere with one another. It is not as narrow as the hair space. It is also used in the International System of Units and in many countries as a thousands separator when writing numbers in groups of three digits, in order to facilitate reading.[1]

In Unicode, thin space is encoded at U+2009THIN SPACE (HTML  · ). Unicode's U+202FNARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (HTML  ) is a non-breaking space with a width similar to that of the thin space.

Jul 24, 2006  How to insert a 'half space' between characters in MS Word? A 'half space' is half the width of a full space. Sometimes a publication uses a 'half space' between two digits in a number, rather than a ','. Example: Rather than '10,000', it uses '10000'. What keys do I need to push to produce a half space in Microsoft Word?

In LaTeX and Plain TeX, thinspace produces a narrow, non-breaking space.[2][3] Inside and outside of math formulae in LaTeX, , also produces a narrow, non-breaking space.

Classic mac os download. In some versions of Microsoft Word, the symbol dialog (often available via Insert > Symbol or Insert > Special Characters), has both the thin space and the narrow no-break space available for point-and-click insertion. In Word's Symbol dialog, under font = '(normal text)', they are found in subset = 'General Punctuation', Unicode character 2009 and nearby. Other word processing programs have ways of producing a thin space.

See also[edit]

Look up thin space in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  • Whitespace character for additional space characters of varying widths

References[edit]

  1. ^'8th edition of the SI Brochure'(PDF). Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  2. ^Knuth, Donald E. (1986) [Incorporates the final corrections made in 1996]. The TeXbook(PDF). Illustrations by Duane Bibby. Addison Wesley. pp. 5, 352. hdl:2027/mdp.49015000850066. ISBN978-0-201-13447-6. LCCN85-30845. OCLC682395096. OL7406778M. Archived(PDF) from the original on September 24, 2004.
  3. ^Braams, Johannes; et al. (October 1, 2015). The LaTeX 2ε Sources(PDF) (1.2 ed.). p. 79.
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On Windows, non-breaking space & hyphen is 'easy'. Use:
Cntl+Shift+space
Cntl+Shift+hyphen
But on a Mac, the Mac BU just likes to be annoying apparently because they chose to be inconsistent for no apparent reason. Took 10 minutes to find anything on it via Googlefu. So here it is for posterity in one place:
Option-Space
Cmd-Shift-hyphen
What is a non-breaking space?
- It's a trick to keep words and numbers together at the end of the line, to prevent the words or number from splitting between two lines.
So for example, if you are near the end of a line and type 'Mr. Smith', you could end up with 'Mr.' on one line, and 'Smith' on the next. By inserting a special non-breaking space between 'Mr.' and 'Smith', the whole thing stays together on moves to the second line altogether. It's useful for keeping names, phone numbers and compound words together.