John W. Kennedy wrote:Rod Engelsman wrote:John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple "do not break" character attribute?????
I'm working right now on transcribing an 18th-century document full of "Mr. S----h" and the like (actually, that's two em dashes), and I can find absolutely no way to prevent "S----h" being broken if it happens to hit the end of a line. All I can do is manually pad out the line with extra spaces until the whole thing falls off onto the next line -- but if I should need to alter the margins, or make a correction to the text, I have to do the whole thing over again.
You can insert a non-breaking dash using Shift+Ctrl+(minus sign). Does that do what you want?
That's a hyphen, not a dash.
Yeah, I know. It's an en-dash, not an em-dash. I thought maybe it might work for you. Too bad it doesn't. :(
No, it's a hyphen.
U+002D (hyphen/minus) short U+2010 (true hyphen) short U+2011 (non-breaking hyphen) short U+2012 (en-dash) long U+2013 (em-dash) longer U+2014 (horizontal bar) longest U+2212 (true minus) short
Has an issue been filed? I would vote for it. It couldn't show up until v 2.1 at the earliest, but the idea definitely has merit.
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John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"
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