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Subject:Re: WinHelp 4 and strange line breaks? From:"Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:28:57 -0600
On 3 Oct 2002 at 15:36, Hart, Geoff wrote:
> I'm just putting the final touches on a couple of WinHelp files...
> when the help window is resized to precisely the wrong size, the text
> wraps after the apostrophe, leaving (in my example) l' on one line and
> the word "apostrophe" on the next line.
> Are these problems inherent to WinHelp 4 and thus unsolvable, or is
> there a relatively simple fix that will keep the article (l') and the
> quotes together with the text they are tied to?
This is an issue in WinHelp. You'll also see the problem before a
full-stop occasionally.
One of the things I have found that works most of the time (but
sometimes doesn't for whatever reason), is to set a "dummy"
character formatting style and apply that style to the text that you
want to keep together. I think this will likely work for the l' -- it may
not work for your other example << text >> .
Dana Worley
2003 MicroSoft WinHelp MVP
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