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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:Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:38:25 -0600
On 4 Oct 2002 at 13:47, Richard G. Combs wrote:
> I'm not sure Dana's idea of a "dummy" character style will help; it
> seems to me that the text string in question must _actually be_ the
> same format in order to avoid the problem. In any case, I don't know
> why it would happen after the apostrophe unless the apostrophe is from
> a different font, special character set, or something.
I'll further explain my reference to a "dummy" character style.
I have on occasion set up a character style in Word called "keep
together". It really doesn't have any special formatting applied to it
(it's essentially "normal" text), but it's a character style that can be
applied to all characters that you don't want broken from the others.
This can trick WinHelp from breaking the line where you don't want
it broken.
And Richard is right -- the WinHelp compiler does not recognize
Word's non-breaking spaces.
Dana
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