Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

Use hard spaces

A “hard space” is an empty space that is different from the regular space that you type with the Spacebar. A hard space doesn’t “break” like a regular word space does—a non-breaking, hard space connects two words as if they were one word. For instance, to prevent the name “Ms. Scarlett” from breaking into “Ms.” at the end of one line and “Scarlett” at the beginning of the next line, you would type a hard space between “Ms.” and “Scarlett,” and then the phrase “Ms. Scarlett” would never break into two words

You can indent on the left or right with hard (non-breaking) spaces, if your software allows it (try it and see). Almost all applications can set a standard hard, non-breaking space in place of the regular blank space, and ...