Aura H2O 2 How to prevent line-breaks?

[Nirkatze]

Hi all,

I have a few fantasy books where telepathic dialogue is marked in non-standard ways, for example:

*Hi! How are you?*
<Hello. I'm good.>

And every now and then, when the line-breaks line up just right, they end up like this:

*Hi! How are you?
*
<Hello. I'm good.
>

I've been trying to figure out a way to prevent line-breaks with the beginning and end "quotes" but haven't had any luck. I use Sigil to edit and prefer epub2, and side-load using Calibre. I also prefer justified (over ragged-right), and have my <p> tag set to text-align: justify.

I've been trying this in the stylesheet:
.nowrap {white-space: nowrap;
line-break-inside: avoid;}

Looks like this in the html file:
<p><i><span class="nowrap">*Hi!</span> How are <span class="nowrap">you?*</span></i></p>

But it doesn't seem to be working. I'd appreciate some expert advice!

[rashkae]

Not tested, (and would have be tested on both epub and kepub).. But here's the technical answer.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...breaking-space

Since a nowrap span is not working, I was thinking you could try putting a word-joiner, ⁠ &⁠#8288 ; between your punctuation and the * / >.

[Nirkatze]

Originally Posted by rashkae

Not tested, (and would have be tested on both epub and kepub).. But here's the technical answer.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...breaking-space

Since a nowrap span is not working, I was thinking you could try putting a word-joiner, ⁠ &⁠#8288 ; between your punctuation and the * / >.

Wicked! I just made a test file with a few different options, and the word-joiner totally works!!! Thank you so much!

New text:
*Hi! How are you?&#8288 ;*
<Hello. I'm good.&#8288 ;>
(space before ; deleted though)

I had a little bit of a scare when I added it in, then used Sigil's clean-up to prettify the html file and it disappeared... until I remembered to add it to the "Preserve Entities" exclusions in Preferences and they all came back. So it'll be there when I forget it too...

I am now going to open all my book files, and put this little baby everywhere...