Stop word break on hyphen?

[LaRetta]

<p><span style="font-size:14px;">If I have a field which contains:</span></p>

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<p style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:14px;">MP1-01, TV-01, TV-02, TV-03, TV-04</span></p>

<p style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:14px;">it sometimes, because it breaks at the end of the page, looks as this:</span></p>

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<p style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:14px;">MP1-01, TV-01, TV-02, TV-03, TV-</span></p>

<p style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:14px;">04</span></p>

<p style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:14px;">It seems there was a shift/key combination on Windows which inserted a space which stopped the break; I forget what it is called now so I can't even look it up. &nbsp;Is there a way of doing the same thing with the dash? Or maybe it could be turned into a word character which isn't used much but this is for display so ...</span></p>

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<p>Whatever that key-combination, use Substitute ( field ; &quot;-&quot; ; &quot; - &quot; ) ...&nbsp;where the spaces are actually that key combination. &nbsp;Ah well, it's late. &nbsp;Oh, actually it's 4:30 am, time to stop. &nbsp;Time flies when having fun! &nbsp;I searched for the name of this invisible connector going on two hours. &nbsp;I throw myself on the mercy of the forum. &nbsp;I want to say 'hard breaks' but that makes no sense at all.</p>

[Matthew F]

In MS Word there is something called a non-breaking hyphen. (Insert> Symbol > Advanced Symbol... Special Characters). If you copy and paste it into FMPro it also will not cause a line break. Code( ) returns 8209 for this character.

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P.S.</b> <i>You </i><u>write</u><i> very <b>funny</b> when </i>you<i>

are<u> tired</u>.&nbsp;</i> &nbsp; <br>

[LaRetta]

Oh wow.  I had asked that these duplicates be deleted.  It seems they only deleted the post I made after this one asking that it be deleted.

 

After the forum messed up and posted this three times, it would not let me delete them.  I only could respond again.

 

Good grief.  Well, sorry Matthew.  I didn't leave this garbage here like this.  I'll see if your response can be moved to the real thread.  :-)

[LaRetta]

This the one we were keeping.  

 

http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/91506-stop-word-break-on-hyphen/

 

Thank you, Matthew!