Font change splits words between lines

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  jocarbkk · Member · Oct 22, 2012 at 9:43 am

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  When trying to increase the font size (headings), words are split leaving 1 or 2 letters in one line.

  I’m using the Suburbia theme and the problem only happens on the front page.

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  justpi · Member · Oct 22, 2012 at 6:04 pm

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  That’s because WP has this thing against “orphans” (single words at the end of a paragraph), so they automatically turn the regular space between the last two words of the title into a non-breaking space (and as you found out, this produces a worse problem than the one they want to prevent). To override it, paste this (HTML entity for a thin space) right before the last word of your titles:
   

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  justpi · Member · Oct 22, 2012 at 6:05 pm

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  Ah, didn’t show up… This, minus the spaces:

  & # 8 2 0 1 ;

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  jocarbkk · Member · Oct 23, 2012 at 12:08 am

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  Great, thanks!