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We have an InDesign project on a technical topic. Like many such books, we are using using a variable width font (Palatino right now) for the body text and a fixed width font (Courier) for portions describing source code or system commands.

Strangely, however, InDesign seems to be trying to make Courier a variable width font.

I've included a screenshot from the PDF we've exported from InDesign, but it also shows up as variable width in the InDesign interface itself. Note how narrow the 'i' character is.

courier at variable width

I have no idea what's going on here or even what to start looking at. Any ideas?

Thanks Friedman

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    a) That doesn't look like Courier to me, fixed width or otherwise and B) the "fi" is a ligature... turn off ligatures.
    – Scott
    Commented Feb 26, 2016 at 22:54
  • I didn't know there was such a thing as a ligature setting. Looks like all I need to do is change the Code style such that ligature is turned off. Perfect!
    – Friedman
    Commented Feb 27, 2016 at 2:56
  • Thanks @Scott. I'd mark this answered, but I don't think I can do that for your comment. If you submit as an answer I'll do that.
    – Friedman
    Commented Feb 27, 2016 at 2:57

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The "fi" is being converted to a ligature. You merely need to turn off ligatures for that paragraph/character style.

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  • I didn't know there was such a thing as a ligature setting. Looks like all I need to do is change the Code style such that ligature is turned off. Perfect!
    – Friedman
    Commented Feb 27, 2016 at 5:47

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