Heading Line Wrap Occurs After First Letter of Last Word

[super-structure]

This one has stumped me and I haven't found anything else in the Forums so far.
In at least two places in a single .PDF output, headings are breaking in the middle of a word, immediately after the first letter of the word. Both of these heading classes have the mc-hyphenate set to Never for the Medium: print. The preview of the .PDF printed out also shows these breaks. I have checked the Hyphenation window and

H1 breaks How-Tos, not at the hyphen but after the T? Note that there is not a space character between the hyphen and the T

Note that there is not a space character between the hyphen and the T:

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<h1 class="SectionTitle"><span class="Chapter_No" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Print">Chapter 7 </span>
            <br />Procedures and How-Tos</h1>

H2 breaks Environment after the E

The markup is pretty straight-forward here, too:

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<h2 class="left">A Tour of the <MadCap:variable name="Primary.ProductName" /> Environment</h2>

As I haven't found anything else on this issue so far, I'm submitting it as a bug. However, I'd wanted to post here as well in the event that this is already a know issue. As a technical writer, it would be a bit pretentious of me to underestimate my own inability to use software or even a forum search.

[SteveS]

Hi, and welcome to the forums!

I notice that you are using small caps for your H1 and H2 styles. Have you tried using a standard font to see if that is causing the return occuring mid word? If so you can confirm a bug.

[super-structure]

Thanks, Steve. I've been lurking here for a while. Fortunately, most all my issues have been solved before I needed to post anything.

Your observation is a good one, as setting the font-variant to Normal does result in the expected behavior (that is, a break before the word rather than after the first letter). Changing the style back again to small-caps reproduces the issue. I do feel that this is a bug as I would still expect the word to not break on the line break even with the font-variant set to small-caps.

And, further, I don't argue that lowercase even does not look better. But my company has some preferred standards for documentation and small-caps in certain headings is one of them.

[SteveS]

No worries, Jason.

I actually like small caps! In headings, at least...

It was the logical person in me that wondered if that was the issue, and it should help the programmers at Madcap to come up with a fix if you can nail the problem (as you have).

I guess we now wait ith bated breath for the fix

[KevinDAmery]

In case you need it, here is where you can submit a bug report:
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx