Excellent! (I was wondering what happened to U+2011 as I investigated the "General
Punctuation" group.) So it's just a matter of the Liberation family not covering the
U+2011 codepoint - but a replacement glyph is provided. Thanks!
You used a term I don't recognize: "NPC". My search turned up that it is a popular abbreviation for
"non-playing character" in domains like WoW, Runelite and lots of other things of which I know nothing, but
fortunately I don't think you used it in that context. I suspect it is close to that textually -- "non" <?>
"character" -- but I decided I had best ask: ?
On 2021-03-24 14:56, V Stuart Foote wrote:
You've missed the one Unicode point that does exactly what you require, but its
use will depend on the font in use.
U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
You can enter via LibreOffice Special Character dialog, or LibreOffice's Unicode
toggle. That is you can type U+2011 and then <Alt>+X to toggle the glyph.
If the font in use does not "cover" the codepoint, you'll get a fallback
replacement or possibly the no glyph value for the font.
When added to canvas the non-breaking hyphen character will receive NPC
highlighting.
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I had always thought that the difference between a "dash" and a "hyphen" is
that the dash is a character (that is, will not break a character string), while the hyphen
hyphenates (that is, breaks at the end of a line if the character string following the hyphen is
too long to fit on the line). So, needing a non-breaking substitute for that horizontal bar on my
keyboard, I invoked:
Insert > Special Character
to get (what I would call) a dash.
LibreOffice has such mid-height horizontal-bar characters in three character
groups:
"General punctuation", characters:
U+2010 (HYPHEN)
U+2012 (FIGURE DASH)
U_2013 (EN DASH)
U+2014 (EM DASH)
U+2015 (HORIZONTAL BAR)
"Mathematical Operators", character:
U+2212 (MINUS SIGN)
"Box Drawing", character:
U+2500 (BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL)
The five characters of the "General Punctuation" group mostly seem to just
represent different widths of hyphen (despite three being called FIGURE DASH, EN DASH, EM
DASH), in that in a character string each will end a line of characters if the string
following is too long to fit. Only the HORIZONTAL BAR acts as a common character, such
that the string of which it is a member will not break there; but it is very long to be
used as a non-breaking hyphen.
The MINUS SIGN in the "Mathematical Operators" group has a special operation:
It will break at the end of a line, but will itself move to the next line, to stay with
the character following MINUS SIGN.
The BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL character acts like the HORIZONTAL BAR --
that is, as a true, non-breaking character -- but is also too long to be used
generally as a non-breaking hyphen.
Is there a clean way to make a non-breaking dash/hyphen?
-John
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