jlhaferman@l_eld01.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) (10/19/90)
How does one prevent a word from splitting dues to word wrap in Word 4.0? For example, I type a number -10000 at the end of a line and Word breaks the '-' and the 10000 into two separate words, placing the '-' at the end of the line and the '10000' at the beginning of the next. Thanks. Jeff Haferman internet: jlhaferman@icaen.uiowa.edu Department of Mechanical Engineering DoD 0186 BMWMOA 44469 AMA 460140 University of Iowa Iowa City IA 52240
dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (10/19/90)
jlhaferman@l_eld01.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes: >How does one prevent a word from splitting dues to word wrap in >Word 4.0? For example, I type a number -10000 at the end of a line >and Word breaks the '-' and the 10000 into two separate words, placing >the '-' at the end of the line and the '10000' at the beginning of >the next. What you want to use the Word's "non-breaking hyphen" which is typed as command-tilde (clover ~). BTW, if you are printing in Times or other normal fonts when doing math be sure to change to the symbol font for the minus sign so that it looks nice like a real minus sign instead of short and stubby like a hyphen. Just get in the habit of hitting command-shift-q before hitting the hyphen (or command-tilde if it might break because it's at the end of a line); that makes your next character be symbol font and then switches back to the font you were using. -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu
scavo@cs.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo) (10/20/90)
In article <dana.656290538@are> dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) writes: >jlhaferman@l_eld01.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes: >>How does one prevent a word from splitting dues to word wrap in >>Word 4.0? For example, I type a number -10000 at the end of a line >>and Word breaks the '-' and the 10000 into two separate words, placing >>the '-' at the end of the line and the '10000' at the beginning of >>the next. > >What you want to use the Word's "non-breaking hyphen" which is typed >as command-tilde (clover ~). BTW, if you are printing in Times or >other normal fonts when doing math be sure to change to the symbol >font for the minus sign so that it looks nice like a real minus sign >instead of short and stubby like a hyphen. Just get in the habit of >hitting command-shift-q before hitting the hyphen (or command-tilde >if it might break because it's at the end of a line); that makes your >next character be symbol font and then switches back to the font you >were using. Right, those are excellent suggestions. You could also put the Symbol font's minus sign in a Word glossary and surround it with whitespace using something like .\D.\FO3() where the .\ is obtained with a <command>-<option>-<\> keystroke combination. (I wish there were an option to make this space nonbreaking---but see below.) Here's a summary of the possibilities then: regular (hard) hyphen - optional (soft) hyphen <command>-<-> nonbreaking hyphen <option>-<~> en-dash <option>-<-> em-dash <shift>-<option>-<-> minus sign <command>-<shift>-<Q> <-> The en-dash is used to denote number ranges (pp.23-39, for example) while the em-dash indicates a break---here represented by a trio of hyphens---in sentences. Don't put any whitespace around the em-dash. Finally, don't forget the nonbreaking space which in Word is had by doing <option>-<spacebar> or <command>-<spacebar>. Hey, I didn't know you could use a nonbreaking hyphen in conjunction with the Symbol font? -- Tom Scavo <scavo@cs.uoregon.edu> ---------
dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (10/20/90)
scavo@cs.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo) writes: >Here's a summary of the possibilities then: > regular (hard) hyphen - > optional (soft) hyphen <command>-<-> > nonbreaking hyphen <option>-<~> > en-dash <option>-<-> > em-dash <shift>-<option>-<-> > minus sign <command>-<shift>-<Q> <-> >Hey, I didn't know you could use a nonbreaking hyphen in conjunction >with the Symbol font? Yup, it works just fine to give you a non-breaking minus sign. A slight correction to your list above though (don't mean to nit- pick, but maybe people are rushing out to go try it at home ;-)), the key in question (that yields the non-breaking hyphen in MS Word, and only in Word, I think) is command-tilde, not option-tilde. -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu