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Hello,

I bought a new font and it is PERFECT for what I need it for. It is nearly an exact match of the print of a 100 year book that I am reprinting.

However, when I make a space, it is the width of double spacing.

Is there a way in Open Office to reduce the default width of spaces between words?

Darren N wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 3:42 am However, when I make a space, it is the width of double spacing. :crazy:

Based on this page, Writer is creating an accurate rendering of the font. Samples there show wide spacing between words. Apparently this is what the font designer intended. If you don't like that appearance maybe this is not a good font choice for you.

Darren N wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 3:42 am Is there a way in Open Office to reduce the default width of spaces between words?

I suppose font editor software could do that. OpenOffice is not a font editor.

If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit ☐ button and add [Solved] to the start of the Subject field. Select the green checkmark icon at the same time.

Please post your examples again with /View /non printing characters turned on, also /View /Field Shading turned on.

That change is to confirm that there are only single spaces between words, and that ordinary spaces not non-breaking spaces etc are used. Not that we doubt you, but one needs to be certain of what is happening.

The first step is to confirm the width of the unexpanded interword space. Please post the text using Artful Dodger with justification turned off (i.e., left-aligned); this will show the unexpanded value of the spaces. If they are too wide, then, as MrProgrammer suggests, a font editor may be used to reduce that space width. Without doing that rather drastic step, perhaps enabling hyphenation for the text may, by the automatic insertion of hyphens, minimise the unpleasant wider interword spacing.

A later question: in your initial examples, do the Georgia and the Artful Dodger examples both use the same font size?

A font may come with any width of the ordinary space (U+0020). It's a decision of the font designer. Unicode supports a lot of whitespace characters, of which two, namely the en-space (U+2002) and the em-space (U+2003) can probably be used as replacements of different width for the ordinary space.
I don't think there is a simple way (not relying on user code) to do the replacement while typing, but having typed some text it can be done using F&R.
See attached erxample: