no break hyphen

[Tim]

hi all,

I have searched for this, yet with no joy.

I have the word e-commerce in an html sentence.
The hyphen allows the commerce part to wrap to a new line.
Yuck.

Is there a no break hyphen, in the same way as a no break space?

TIA

TIM

[Jeremy]

Tim wrote:

hi all,

I have searched for this, yet with no joy.

I have the word e-commerce in an html sentence.
The hyphen allows the commerce part to wrap to a new line.
Yuck.

Is there a no break hyphen, in the same way as a no break space?

TIA

TIM

Yep. Unicode character U+2011 (HTML entity ‑)

Jeremy

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Tim <Ci************@gmail.com> scripsit:

I have searched for this, yet with no joy.
Really? We very recently discussed the topic of line breaks after hyphens,
in the thread "Breaking hyphen in Mozilla and an IE display problem".
Is there a no break hyphen, in the same way as a no break space?

The correct answer to your question is "Yes", but this is not the answer you
need. Please check the previous discussion. For your convenience, here's
what _I_ regard as the practical answer, as I wrote previously:

In a more general case, to prevent an undesired line break in, say, -a,
there are several options, but the practical approaches are the nonstandard
markup
<nobr>-a</nobr>
and the use of CSS, e.g. using markup
<span class="nobr">-a</span>
with CSS code
..nobr { white-space: nowrap; }

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[Tim]

cheers guys,

jeremy, your method works fine.

jukka, thanks - nice idea but a bit longwinded.
Tim

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Tim <Ci************@gmail.com> scripsit:

cheers guys,
On Usenet, there are two common ways to express that you have not
understood, or even read comprehensively, what others have written:
1) by quoting it in its entirety
2) by not quoting or paraphrasing at all what you are commenting on.
jeremy, your method works fine.
For some values of "works".

Check http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...ontsupport.htm and
note that although the list of fonts is longish, it does not contain most of
the fonts used to view Web pages, including the most common browser default.
jukka, thanks - nice idea but a bit longwinded.

You apparently didn't get a clue. I referred to previous discussions, which
would have lead you to several ideas, including U+2011 (Jeremy's response),
as well as reasons why some ideas that are good, or just perfect, in theory
do not work reliably in present-day HTML authoring for the WWW.

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[Tim]

I love this place!

you managed to write 4 lines on my single comment "cheers guys".

;-)


Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

Tim <Ci************@gmail.com> scripsit:

cheers guys,

On Usenet, there are two common ways to express that you have not
understood, or even read comprehensively, what others have written:
1) by quoting it in its entirety
2) by not quoting or paraphrasing at all what you are commenting on.

jeremy, your method works fine.

For some values of "works".

Check http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...ontsupport.htm and
note that although the list of fonts is longish, it does not contain most of
the fonts used to view Web pages, including the most common browser default.

jukka, thanks - nice idea but a bit longwinded.

You apparently didn't get a clue. I referred to previous discussions, which
would have lead you to several ideas, including U+2011 (Jeremy's response),
as well as reasons why some ideas that are good, or just perfect, in theory
do not work reliably in present-day HTML authoring for the WWW.

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Jeremy]

Tim wrote:

I love this place!

you managed to write 4 lines on my single comment "cheers guys".

;-)

Tim,
Welcome to usenet! ;-)

I'm not sure why some people feel so inconvenienced by the presence of a
question that they feel it necessary to berate the person who asked.

Jeremy

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Tim <Ci************@gmail.com> scripsit:

I love this place!

You apparently wish to babble pointlessly. That's your privilege, as it is
my privilege to ignore you in future and leave you alone with any bogus (or,
by accident, correct) advice as you might get from people who tolerate your
continued misbehavior.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Jeremy <je*****@uci.edu> scripsit:

I'm not sure why some people feel so inconvenienced by the presence
of a question that they feel it necessary to berate the person who
asked.

If you are referring to me, I did _not_ berate a) any person, b) any
question - just a reaction that was unconstructive and violated the
netiquette in several ways. Actually, I gave the practically useful answer
in this thread.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Tim]

jukka, chill out man.

my first response to your assistance started with the phrase...

"jukka, thanks - nice idea"

This is not rude, or "babbling pointlessly", or even a request to be
left alone. I'm not really sure where you are coming from. I guess it's
because I called your stylesheet method "long winded". It makes you
look very over-sensitive.

If you really feel the need to block my posts in future, that is fine.

Tim
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

Tim <Ci************@gmail.com> scripsit:

I love this place!

You apparently wish to babble pointlessly. That's your privilege, as it is
my privilege to ignore you in future and leave you alone with any bogus (or,
by accident, correct) advice as you might get from people who tolerate your
continued misbehavior.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <11**********************@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups. com>, Tim
<Ci************@gmail.comwrites

>This is not rude

Top-posting is.
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