sticky hyphen

Notjohn · 05-20-2016, 02:17 PM

I can't seem to find anything in the online manual or by Googling the subject that enables me to get a non-breaking or sticky hyphen, as when for example I want to speak of an F-105 aircraft, so that F- doesn't appear on one line and 105 on the next. Can this be done, and will it carry through to Kindle and to (some or most) epub readers? Thanks!

DiapDealer · 05-20-2016, 03:38 PM

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Seems to work in Sigil's Book View/Preview, but there's no guarantee that the Kindle conversion or any rendering system will honor it. There's no guarantee that a rendering system's font will even include the glyph.

Clancolin · 05-21-2016, 10:10 AM

Your query intrigued me and off I went in "distracted mode" to see what the answer was. Amazingly a "sticky-hyphen" is non-standard? Of the solutions I found, this seems to work
<span style="white-space: nowrap;">F-105</span>.

Another favoured solution seemed to be to use ‑ I am not going to use that, as F‑105 does not show up in a search for "F-105" whereas the span solution allows the correct search result. Not sure if that will help you, but it helped me!

Notjohn · 05-21-2016, 03:21 PM

Thank you! I'll give it a try, though I fear it will add quite a bit to the weight of the epub.

I'll also try a Kindle mobi consisting of nothing but aircraft designations with ‑ incorporated and see if they survive the conversion.

05-20-2016, 02:17 PM	#1
Notjohn mostly an observer Posts: 1,518 Karma: 987654 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle	sticky hyphen I can't seem to find anything in the online manual or by Googling the subject that enables me to get a non-breaking or sticky hyphen, as when for example I want to speak of an F-105 aircraft, so that F- doesn't appear on one line and 105 on the next. Can this be done, and will it carry through to Kindle and to (some or most) epub readers? Thanks!

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05-20-2016, 03:38 PM	#2
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,356 Karma: 203720150 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	‑ Seems to work in Sigil's Book View/Preview, but there's no guarantee that the Kindle conversion or any rendering system will honor it. There's no guarantee that a rendering system's font will even include the glyph.

05-21-2016, 10:10 AM	#3
Clancolin Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Hampshire, UK Device: Pocketbook Aqua 2	Your query intrigued me and off I went in "distracted mode" to see what the answer was. Amazingly a "sticky-hyphen" is non-standard? Of the solutions I found, this seems to work <span style="white-space: nowrap;">F-105</span>. Another favoured solution seemed to be to use ‑ I am not going to use that, as F‑105 does not show up in a search for "F-105" whereas the span solution allows the correct search result. Not sure if that will help you, but it helped me!

05-21-2016, 03:21 PM	#4
Notjohn mostly an observer Posts: 1,518 Karma: 987654 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle	Thank you! I'll give it a try, though I fear it will add quite a bit to the weight of the epub. I'll also try a Kindle mobi consisting of nothing but aircraft designations with ‑ incorporated and see if they survive the conversion.

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