Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 355)

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Ideographic Space
Em Space
En Space
Nonbreaking Space
Nonbreaking Space (Fixed Width)
Third Space
Quarter Space
Do one of the following:
Choose Type > Insert Special Character > Quotation Marks > Straight Double Quotation Marks or Straight Single Quotation Mark
(Apostrophe).
Deselect the Use Typographer’s Quotes option in the Type section of the Preferences dialog box, and then type the quotation mark or
apostrophe.
Press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+' (Windows) or Shift+Command+Option+' (Mac OS) to switch between turning on and off the Use Typographer’s
Quotes preferences option.
The character frequently used to indicate feet, arcminutes, or minutes of time is the prime mark. It looks like a slanted apostrophe. The
character frequently used to indicate inches, arcseconds, or seconds of time is the double prime mark. These symbols are different from
apostrophes and double quotation marks. Some fonts include the prime and double prime marks. Use the Glyphs panel to insert these marks.
If the font doesn’t have a prime or double prime mark, insert the straight quotation mark, and italicize it.
Insert white space characters
A white space character is a blank space that appears between characters. You can use white-space characters for many different purposes, such
as preventing two words from being broken at the end of a line.
1. Using the Type tool, position the insertion point where you want to insert a certain amount of white space.
2. Choose Type > Insert White Space, and then select one of the spacing options (such as Em Space) in the context menu.
Representative symbols of the white-space characters appear when you choose Type > Show Hidden Characters.
White space options
The following options appear on the Type > Insert White Space menu:
This is a space that is based on a full-width character in Asian languages. It wraps to the next line as with other full-width characters.
Equal in width to the size of the type. In 12-point type, an em space is 12 points wide.
One-half the width of an em space.
The same flexible width as pressing the spacebar, but it prevents the line from being broken at the space character.
A fixed width space prevents the line from being broken at the space character, but does not expand or compress in justified text. The fixed width
space is identical to the Nonbreaking Space character inserted in InDesign CS2.
One-third the width of an em space.
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