Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that Finale has hard-wired one particular ASCII character and made it unavailable. The one time this problem really bit me in the butt was not with a non-breaking hyphen at all, but because I wanted to use a freeware Cyrillic font that mapped a certain letter onto the usual ASCII slot for hyphen, putting the hyphen elsewhere. This font was simply unusable in Finale, and I was unable to complete the piece on schedule. I have since gotten a better Cyrillic font, but the fact remains that Finale has tied itself to a certain font mapping. There ought to be some sort of indirection to get around it.
For that matter, you could blame the lack of non-breaking hyphen not on the Mac OS, but on the font designers. The only reason it works in Windows is because a standard Windows font has a second character which looks identical to a hyphen. Any Mac font could be designed to do the same thing, regardless of what the OS says.
Mark,
The slot mappings for text fonts are fairly well carved in stone at this point and all the slots are used up in the Mac encodings. There has to be standardization in order for multiple manufacturers to be able to deliver products which work with other products. The idea of user assignable key maps is not certainly not new and there are a few text applications I know of which can implement this sort of thing. Most notably EMACS, Alpha, and the Cocoa frameworks in OS X. However I'm under the impression that the overwhelming usage is to customize the bindings for slots 128—255 and leave the ASCII ones untouched (thus leaving a lowest common denominator of 7 bit text). Furthermore, that this _is_ the convention is used by font designers when remapping slots in text fonts. So I think the font you had was Rogue Cyrillic.
I don't disapprove of your idea for a changeable hyphen slot though, and I'd like up the ante a bit by saying that the designated hyphen slot should be optionally rendered as a graphic.
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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