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. :(
Anyway, this is only the most recent annoyance. Time and time again I've hit some problem using OOo that could have been quickly and conveniently solved if I had been able just to say, "Don't break here," (as I could on DeScribe), but which instead had to be solved by performing some kludge. Mark the word in question "no language". Turn off hyphenation. Fiddle with the margins. Rewrite the copy. etc., etc., etc....
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.
Rod
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