[GrannyGrump]

@Rubén ---
I really hate to rain on the party. I tried your NoWrap span, and in my usage, it failed.



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I use "hanging indents" for poetry, and the spanned text slides to the left, superimposed over adjacent text. It seemed to do this both WITH and WITHOUT the text-indent:0 specified in the span.

Code:

Spoiler:

CSS:

.stanza{
margin-top: 1.0em;
margin-bottom: 1.25em;
margin-right: .5em;
margin-left: 2.5em;
}

.stanza p{
text-align: left;
text-indent: -2.75em; 
padding-left: 2.75em;
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: .15em;
hyphens: none;
-webkit-hyphens: none !important;
-moz-hyphens: none;
adobe-hyphenate: none;
}

.nowrap{
/*text-indent: 0 !important;*/
display: inline-block;
}

HTML:

<div class="stanza">
<p>“And now, when fifteen suns have each</p>
<p class="ins1">Fulfill’d in turn its circling year,</p>
<p>Thrown back again on England’s beach,</p>
<p class="ins1">Our bark paid off—HE drives me <i>Here!</i></p>
<p>I could not die in flood or <span class="nowrap">fight—</span></p>
<p>HE drives me <span class="midfont">HERE</span>!!”—</p>
<p class="aright">“And sarve you right!</p>
</div>

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If I do manage to get the viewer window sized just right, so that the spanned word does drop to the next line, it does not indent as specified in the CSS.



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Also, when I tried it in a normal paragraph (no negative indent), but justified, it gave an extremely wide spacing to the spanned word.




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I tested in Sigil and Calibre viewer (QT based) and in ADE 2.0.

So this kind of span seems not to work well in paras with negative / hanging indents. The good news is that the Unicode ⁠& # 8 2 8 8 ; appears to be working fine with hanging indent.

Please let me know if I am doing something wrong with the code.