On 2013-07-19, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Jessy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello all,

>> I'm currently writing my thesis in Japanese studies using LyX 2.0.6 on OS X 
>> 10.6.8. The document class of my choice is koma-script book.

>> While my thesis is mainly written in my native German, there are some 
>> Japanese names, terms, and place names given in the text. What's pretty 
>> annoying is that there sometimes are line breaks inside a name, e.g. the 
>> last character only is placed in a new line.
>> Is there a way to prevent LyX from doing this? I've tried to achieve it by 
>> preventing hyphenation, but that just makes everything look terrible and 
>> still breaks the Japanese words in between - seems they're not actually 
>> recognized as words.

>> Is there some quick and easy solution for this? There's a bunch of Japanese 
>> words in my text and so far, a great amount of them is split that way, which 
>> really doesn't look too good.

>> Thank you very much in advance for any advice you could possibly have.

> Hi Jessica,

> I think you are running into this bug:
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4635

> There is a LyX user that is trying to fix this (but no current
> solution exists, as far as I know) here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg177986.html

One problem is, that Japanese is usually written without whitespace between
the words. Maybe therefore LyX/XeTeX allow linewraps everywhere.

The usual (La)TeX way of preventing wraps in a word (or other text part) is,
to put it in an \mbox:
   
   Pleas do not wrap the line in \mbox{Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft}.
   
This could be done via raw LaTeX (ERT) or an inset.

If there are many cases where this is required, you may save time by editing
the source file with a text editor.

Günter

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