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Old 11-01-2011, 11:54 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by JohnnyNonsense View Post
you could try using non-breaking spaces:
S - a - n - t - a - i - s
You could try using ragged-right justification on the containing paragraph, if you haven't already.
Thanks for the tip. The non-breaking space worked, but I don't think I will be using it for this project since there are no spaces in the paper book, and I try to be as faithful to the source as possible. the ragged-right justification didn't alter anything though. Have I misunderstood something, or isn't ragged-right justification the same as plain ol' left justification?

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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
A non-breaking hyphen is what you want. If it's not supported by the default reader font, that's not your problem (...) But actually, is it so grave if the word is split at line end? That's probably better than the additional word space that would result if the whole bit is moved to the next line.

You could also try a non-breaking zero-width space (word joiner), & #8288;, after each hyphen, but you'll probably be in the same situation if the font has no definition for it.
The zero-width space sounds scary, especially since most of my project using special characters like thinspace and equal has ended up with the reader not being able to render the content properly. So the less I have of these, the more happy I am. I will go for the non-breaking hypen then, and hope it renders properly.

Of course I would not take my death of it if I had to cope with linebreak in the middle of this sequence of letters, but I find it looks more pleasing it I can keep it on one line, even though there will probably by, as you pointed out, more white spece on the line when the entire sequence is shifted to the next line
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