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Old 08-28-2023, 09:35 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by nabsltd View Post
The whole point of the non-breaking space is that the time (i.e., "2 p.m.") shouldn't be split across two lines.

I think @Quoth had it right in that it was caused by using the word instead of a number. I hadn't seen it before in hundreds of books, all formatted with non-breaking spaces between the number and the [ap].m.
p.m. can still be split at the periods. So you could end up with...

2 p.
m.
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