Java Desktop System Release 2 User Guide > Getting Started > Managing Your Desktop Session, first bullet
Extra spaces are added in the following locations:

Java Desktop System Release 2 User Guide > Working With Panels > Panel Objects > To Modify the Properties of an Object, number 1
Java Desktop System Release 2 User Guide > File Manager > Browsing Your Files > View Pane, first paragraph after first bulleted list, space before "File browser"
Java Desktop System Release 2 User Guide > Using Your Preference Tools > Customizing Themes, all three paragraphs in the variablelist

At these locations are indexterms. Perhaps the indexterms are being rendered as spaces?
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