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ionavideo · 06-24-2015, 07:22 AM

I was putting nbsp nonbreaking spaces between numbers and measures, like 12 months and 6 kilometers and whatever -- 24 hours, 30 days...

When I looked at the Nook test file, some nonbreaking spaces worked to keep the number and its measure together... and some had a hyphen between the figure and the measure word!

It seems that if the measure word is one syllable, it will put a hyphen in. So 30 days is getting a hyphen at the end of a line, while 16 kilometers is okay and pushes over to the next line (sort of) with a hyphen in the word.

Anyone familiar with this?

06-24-2015, 07:22 AM	#1
ionavideo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: Nook and iPhone	nonbreaking space with hyphen mystery I was putting nbsp nonbreaking spaces between numbers and measures, like 12 months and 6 kilometers and whatever -- 24 hours, 30 days... When I looked at the Nook test file, some nonbreaking spaces worked to keep the number and its measure together... and some had a hyphen between the figure and the measure word! It seems that if the measure word is one syllable, it will put a hyphen in. So 30 days is getting a hyphen at the end of a line, while 16 kilometers is okay and pushes over to the next line (sort of) with a hyphen in the word. Anyone familiar with this?