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AlexBell · 03-08-2019, 11:52 PM

I'm working on an epub ebook which in each of its 18 books and 208 chapters has a 'preface' of several words or a few sentences. The text of the 'preface' is centered, often using several lines, and quite often the last word on a line breaks, and is hyphenated. I think this looks awful.

Is there a way to prevent all of the words in the centered text from breaking? A word at the end of a line which would otherwise break will then drop to the next line.

I know how to prevent a single word from breaking and hyphenating. But I really don't want to have to apply this markup to all or most of the words in each of the 226 'prefaces'.

03-08-2019, 11:52 PM	#1
AlexBell Wizard Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet	Can I prevent hyphenation in a block of text? I'm working on an epub ebook which in each of its 18 books and 208 chapters has a 'preface' of several words or a few sentences. The text of the 'preface' is centered, often using several lines, and quite often the last word on a line breaks, and is hyphenated. I think this looks awful. Is there a way to prevent all of the words in the centered text from breaking? A word at the end of a line which would otherwise break will then drop to the next line. I know how to prevent a single word from breaking and hyphenating. But I really don't want to have to apply this markup to all or most of the words in each of the 226 'prefaces'.