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Suppress hyphenation keyboard shortcut

Guest
May 09, 2012 May 09, 2012

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When I try to supress hyphenation in an arithmetic expression (-64dBVp-p), I select that word then hit shortcut

ESC n s (as the documentation says). A "no hyphenation" marker appears but the word itself disappears. Am I doing something wrong?

Cheers,

JP

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May 11, 2012 May 11, 2012

I found either a solution or a workaround. David solved the problem of the

disappearing word  (<applies dope slap to self>) but the word still broke

at the hyphen.

I then tried changing the hyphen to a true minus sign, (CTRL-Q SHIFT-P)

but that didn't work either-- the word broke after the minus sign.

The problem went away after I did Format>Document>Text Options and removed

both the hyphen and the minus sign from the "Allow Line Breaks After" field.

Cheers,

JP

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May 09, 2012 May 09, 2012

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What happens if you do a CTL-L to refresh the screen? Does that bring it back?

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May 09, 2012 May 09, 2012

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Alas, no.

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May 10, 2012 May 10, 2012

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You shouldn’t be selecting the word. Place your cursor in front of it and then enter the no-hyphen code.

You will also have to use non-breaking hyphens inside your expression.

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I found either a solution or a workaround. David solved the problem of the

disappearing word  (<applies dope slap to self>) but the word still broke

at the hyphen.

I then tried changing the hyphen to a true minus sign, (CTRL-Q SHIFT-P)

but that didn't work either-- the word broke after the minus sign.

The problem went away after I did Format>Document>Text Options and removed

both the hyphen and the minus sign from the "Allow Line Breaks After" field.

Cheers,

JP

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While you can remove them from the Allow Line Breaks, you could also have just inserted non-breaking hyphens (Esc - [hyphen] h). Maybe for the future (i.e., it's easier to type, and you don't prevent appropriate breaks).

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P.S.,

Surely this is a bug. ESC n s is an override and to have it fail to override

this fairly obscure setting is crazy-making.

Also, I'll want to go back and add +, =, etc. to make sure other expressions don't get broken.

Cheers,

JP

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I thought "ESC n s" was just for suppressing the hyphenation symbol - at least that's what the FM9 shortcuts list that Jetsetcom.net had published a few years ago and the help says.

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