Non-breaking Spaces Cause Spurious "Word" Spaces

["Hedley Finger (EPA)" <Hedley.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Non-breaking Spaces Cause Spurious "Word" Spaces

I use non-breaking spaces (nbs) to keep related text items together, for example (U = the non-breaking space character),

        "flowUA",
        "Choose FileU> UtilitiesU> Merge To Baseline",
        "Click the Save buttonU(GRAPHIC-HERE)" and so on.

But I have noticed that, when the non-breaking space is adjacent to a non-alphabetic character or punctuation, spurious spaces are inserted in PRINTED pages or characters are obliterated by a right displacement of the character to the right of the nbs:

        "Choose Fil eU>Utilitie sU>Merge To Baseline", and
        "the Save butto nUGRAPHIC-HERE)" [note left parenthesis missing].

The text looks fine on screen.

Has anybody an explanation and a cure for this phenomenon?

[FrameMaker 5.5.6, Windows 98, HP OmniBook 2100, HP LaserJet 8000 DN, AdobePS 4.3.1 with LJ8000DN.ppd]

Regards,
Hedley Finger   Technical Writer

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