On 10 Oct 2008 at 8:59, Harold Fuchs wrote: > 2008/10/10 mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 9 Oct 2008 at 16:28, John W Kennedy wrote: > > > > > On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: > > > > How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the > > > > end of > > > > a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain > > > > words? > > > > > > > > > With Format->Character (or, better yet, with a style), mark it, under > > > Font, as being in No Language. > > > > Presumably the side-effect of that will be that it's never spell- > > checked. > > > > If that's the only way of achieving the result, there's a design > > flaw. > > > > Is it not possible to create a "no-language" style named, say, "URL/e-mail" > and apply it to the relevant pieces of text? One probably wouldn't want URLs > or e-mail addrssses spell checked. The reason I ask is that I can't force my > OOo to hyphenate however hard I try. Any ideas why that should be?
It wasn't URLs or whatever so much (I doubt they can be usefully spell-checked) as the final note about "certain words". The simple fact is that "language" and "may [not] be hyphenated" are orthogonal attributes. There may be good reasons for not hyphenating that long German (say) word - but I would like it spell-checked please :-) Actually I've just checked the help file (quite a lot under hyphenation - two entries at least). "Preventing Hyphenation of Specific Words 1.Choose Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids 2.Select a dictionary in the User-defined dictionary list, and then click Edit. If the list is empty, click New to create a dictionary. 3.In the Word box, type the word you want to exclude from hyphenation, followed by an equal sign (=), for example, "pretentious=". 4.Click New, and then click Close. To quickly exclude a word from hyphenation, select the word, choose Format - Character, click the Font tab, and select "None" in the Language box. " So there is a right way of doing this, it appears......... even if it suggests the wrong way as well :-) -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
