[AlexBell]

I'm working on an ebook in which the first part of the story takes place in --shire, and a city called X--.

I'm using —shire for the name of the county, and X— for the city. But every now and then both constructions break - with the — at the end of the line, and shire at the beginning of the next line - similarly for X—

Is there anyway to stop this happening? It happens rarely, but when it does it's ugly.

I've tried using —‍shire, but that doesn't work.