On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:09 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I can't believe I don't know how to do this, as many years as I have > been using Writer. > > Suppose I have a line of text that ends with a scientific notation like > "[-sonorant]." Because of the length of the line Writer breaks it > between the "[-" and the "sonorant]. > > To further clarify, the automatic line break makes it end like [- > sonorant], followed by the rest of the sentence. > > This is just wrong. I need Writer to keep it all on one line so it is > [-sonorant]. > > Of course, I can just enter some spaces to force it (and I did, just to > get the job done), but that is not a good solution. If I later edit the > text before or after there will be some extra spaces that should not be > there. > > I thought I could just select "[-sonorant]" and apply some feature to > it so it would always stay together. But I can't find any way to do > that. I can't use Insert Non-Breaking Space because the notation > doesn't have any spaces in it. A non-breaking hyphen would work, except > that I can't use a hyphen. The standards for the notation require an > n-dash, which Writer interprets as a regular hyphen. > > Is there any way to tell Writer "keep the next X characters together"? A Shift-Enter before the entry will force the whole thing down to the next line.
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