At 18:49 01/03/2009 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 23:51, Manfred J. Krause wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:09 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I can't believe I don't know how to do this, as many years as I
have been using Writer. Suppose I have a line of text that ends
with a scientific notation like "[-sonorant]." Because of the
length of the line Writer breaks it between the "[-" and the
"sonorant]. To further clarify, the automatic line break makes it end like [-
sonorant], followed by the rest of the sentence.
This is just wrong. I need Writer to keep it all on one line so it is
[-sonorant]. [...]
You may try:
Insert > Formatting Mark > No-width no break (CTL must be enabled)
[-<No-width no break>sonorant].
Thanks for the suggestions. I thought you had it, but it doesn't work.
First, I do have CTL enabled, but inserting no-width-no-break did
nothing. Writer still breaks on the en-dash, thinking that it is a
manual hyphen.
For what it's worth, this technique *does* work on my system (3.0.1
for Windows XP, English (UK)). It works whether I use a hyphen or an
en-dash (U+2013). I also note that complex text layout needs to be
enabled only in order to be able to insert the "No-width no break"
character, but not for the subsequent text flow to work as required.
You must be doing something different from me, but I don't know what
this might be. Could it be a font problem? "Zero width no-break
space" appears to be a Unicode character (U+FEFF), but it doesn't
appear that this needs to exist in the font you are using for the
technique to work.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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