How do I insert a thin space in Libre in Windows?

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#1

Hi
What is the keyboard shortcut for inserting a thin space in Windows?
Your website help isn't much help. Eventually found your suggestion, using
Google, to use U+2009.
What does "U" stand for? The usual keys don't work.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
These guides might be more useful in general
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
If you go to
Tools - Customise
then you can reconfigure one of the keyboard combinations to be pretty much
anything you want. I'd suggest seeing what Ctrl space or Alt space or even
shift&space do at the moment and consider changing one of those to be a
thin space.

If you are serious about doing Desktop Publishing then a word-processor is
not quite right for the task. Writer is better than most but it might be
worth considering Scribus or something else designed to be a proper DTP.
Scribus is in the same eco-system as LibreOffice/OpenOffice and can use one
(or several) of the output-files that LibreOffice can save in.

I'm not sure what the U stands for nor how to get such coding into a
document. Hopefully someone else might help with that later.

Regards from
tom :slight_smile:

#3

The U stands for Unicode (the universal character set). The notation U
+0000 is a way of making it explicit that the number is a Unicode
reference.

Unicode 2009 is a thin space, traditionally considered a fifth of the
nominal type size in points, defined by Unicode as either or a fifth or
a sixth but in any case depending on the size given to this character by
the creator of a particular font.

There are several ways of entering any character in the Unicode range by
its number, though they differ between Linux and Windows. Im afraid I
don’t know anything about the latter.

#4

U stands for Unicode. One way to insert a Unicode character is by holding down the <shift> and <ctrl> keys and typing 'u' then the <Unicode hexadecimal value>.

<shift><ctrl>u + <Unicode hexadecimal value>

<shift><ctrl>u + 2009

Ubuntu 14.04

#5

What is the keyboard shortcut for inserting a thin space in Windows?

If you go to Tools - Customise then you can reconfigure one of the keyboard combinations to be pretty much anything you want.

No: surely only to one of the provided functions, not "pretty much anything"?

I'd suggest seeing what Ctrl space or Alt space or even shift&space do at the moment and consider changing one of those to be a thin space.

But you cannot do that, since "Insert thin space" is not an available function. You can get to Insert | Special Character, but no further.

Brian Barker

#6

​To be completely honest, you can bind custom macro too, that could achieve
this task in one line. It might be a bit overkill though, and probably
easier to just remap an unused key combination at the OS level (but I don't
know an easy way to do that outside of linux systems).​

#7

Hi,

Séamas Ó Brógáin schrieb:

The U stands for Unicode (the universal character set). The notation U
+0000 is a way of making it explicit that the number is a Unicode
reference.

Unicode 2009 is a thin space, traditionally considered a fifth of the
nominal type size in points, defined by Unicode as either or a fifth or
a sixth but in any case depending on the size given to this character by
the creator of a particular font.

There are several ways of entering any character in the Unicode range by
its number, though they differ between Linux and Windows. Im afraid I
don’t know anything about the latter.

Methods for entering these code points are described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#Hexadecimal_code_input

Kind regards
Regina

#8

Hi Johan,

Johan de Smidt schrieb:

Hi
What is the keyboard shortcut for inserting a thin space in Windows?
Your website help isn't much help. Eventually found your suggestion, using
Google, to use U+2009.
What does "U" stand for? The usual keys don't work.

You have already read how to use your operating system for input. If you will not do that (for example because you are not allowed to change the registry of the Windows machine), using a macro is another way, e.g. my suggestion in http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg34891.html A macro can be bound to a button or to a shortcut key.

Such thin space is often used between number and unit in a measurement. In such cases I do not use a thin space but I use a not-breakable space and make it smaller in the character dialog. I do this, because I do not want, that I get a line break between number and unit.

Kind regards
Regina