Typesetting question re. hair spaces

[Brize]

Does anyone know how to display hair spaces in OS X without using layout design software?

 

[mac.FINN]

I'm confused. Are you trying to type hairspaces? If so in what program, or are you trying to show hairspaces in the screen displays of OSX? And if so... I have no idea.

 

[Brize]

Sorry, I should have made my question clearer.

I'd like to type hair spaces either side of em dashes in TextEdit, MS Word, etc. and wondered whether there was a system-wide shortcut that I could use.

 

[HiRez]

As far as I know, hair spaces aren't even an official character, so I doubt you can type them with a standard key command in any application. TextEdit won't even recognize them as hair spaces when opened/pasted. Heck, even in InDesign you can't type one directly into a search box.

 

[Brize]

Well, that answers that. I guess I'll just have to continue setting them unspaced. Thanks for the responses.