Re: Non-breaking em dash and en dash?

[Ezra Steinberg <ezra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried removing the thin spaces around the en dash -- no effect.
However, removing line breaks in the entire document for en dash and em
dash (Format->Document->Text Options) does the trick even with the thin
spaces! That I like.

I still would prefer having the choice of specifying the non-breaking
attribute on an instance-by-instance basis *in addition* to doing it for
an entire document (or even -- ahem! -- an entire book. ;-)

Running FM 5.5.6 on Solaris 2.7.

Ezra


Lin Sims wrote:
> 
> En and Em dashes ARE nonbreaking, but you can't have spaces
> to either side of them. A space lets the program know it's ok to
> break a line there. If you take out the thin spaces, or replace them
> with Hard Spaces (ctrl+spacebar), you should be fine.
> 
> On 4 Jun 2001, at 13:46, Ezra Steinberg wrote:
> 
> > Are there any versions of FrameMaker that support a non-breaking em
> > dash and non-breaking en dash? (Right now I'm aware only of a
> > non-breaking hyphen.) In my document I use an en dash (with thin
> > spaces around it) to separate a numeric range (1-10 for example). The
> > second part of the range gets pushed to the next line when the line
> > gets long enough, which I don't want. (And I prefer not to manually
> > insert a hard line break since I'd like things to work automatically.)
> >

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