non-breaking space is breaking

[bonnie]

I'm getting situations where the non-breaking space is breaking at the end of a line. I'm trying to use it to hold two words together. The two words break apart at the end of the line and the "non-breaking space" drops down to the beginning of the next line.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, have you figured out a work-around?

Thanks ahead for any advice on this one.
Bonnie

[LTinker68]

If you have tags on either side of each half of the hyphen (e.g., <b>court</b>-<b>martial</b>) then it's because there's a bug in Flare where it counts the code when it determines where to wrap text. The options are to include the phrase inside one set of tags (e.g., <b>court-martial</b>) or manually insert a soft line break (<br \>) to make the whole phrase go on the next line.

However, I'm not entirely sure that Flare honors the non-breaking hyphen because that's more of a print convention and Flare is based on CSS and HTML/XHTML and I don't think they have an equivalent character. However, CSS and HTML/XHTML do have something that does the same thing. Create either a custom span class or a generic class and set its white-space attribute to nowrap. Then wrap the text inside that custom span class or the generic class. That is, select the class then apply the span or generic class.

[bonnie]

Lisa,
Thanks for the suggestion, but it's not working for me.

Following is what I'm using for my span class.

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	span.NonBreaking
	{
		white-space: nowrap;
	}

I apply this span to the words I want to hold together with the non-breaking space but the words are still separating with the space ending up at the beginning of the second line.

I looked up the nowrap attribute in my O'Reilly HTML/XML manual, and it describes the nowrap attribute as working in <div>, and <table> and <tr> tags, and only for Internet Explorer. My book is old (copyright 2000), so I can't verify that this hasn't changed. But I'm not sure that nowrap is the answer to this situation.

Bonnie

[Andrew]

I'm pretty sure that's out-of-date: http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_text_white-space.asp

What output is this in?

[bonnie]

I'm pretty sure that's out-of-date: http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_text_white-space.asp

Andrew,
Thank you for the link to w3schools .com. I will use this site from now on as my reference, instead of my outdated book.

My output from Flare is direct to PDF. I am still unable to get white-space: nowrap to work in a span tag.

However, it seems that the non-breaking space itself should do the job, too. But it doesn't.
Is this operator error of some sort, or a bug? I haven't seen anyone else reporting this problem on the forum. So I am wondering.
Thanks again,
Bonnie

[LTinker68]

When you say it's not working, does it not work in the generated output? Or is it just the XML Editor and/or Preview window where it doesn't work?

[bonnie]

When you say it's not working, does it not work in the generated output? Or is it just the XML Editor and/or Preview window where it doesn't work?

Hi Lisa,

It's not working in the XML Editor, the Previewer, or the generated PDF output.

Bonnie

[Fiona]

I'm having issues with this too. I can't get Flare 10 to honour   irrespective of whether I enter it directly in XML or use the shift+space option. I've also tried a nowrap class but every time the output is still breaking when I generate the pdf. Has anyone else had this? I'm not inside any other tags except the standard paragraph tags, and non-breaking hyphens work fine, but it's a non-breaking space that I need!

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[ajturnersurrey]

I can only offer sympathy - I have had similar issues and have simply resorted to the very unsatisfactory </br> from time to time, having tried the range of possibilities you describe (from inserting a non-breaking space through the menus, to typing it into the code, or using a span with nowrap) ....

I too would love to find a reliable solution to this issue!

[ChoccieMuffin]

A suggestion to stop your </br> from messing up your formatting in online output, format the </br> as print only, so it gets ignored except in print.

[doc_guy]

The print-only condition is a good idea.

Also, have you tried the following code:

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span
{
  white-space: pre;
}

I'm pretty sure that for a span you need to use the above setting.

-Paul