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Re: Invisible line break



I think Patricia wants to have a non-printing discretionary hyphen. The en
or em dash would take the place of the hyphen, if a line needed to break
right there. That's why I suggested the separator table.

chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Holmgren" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: Invisible line break


> ** Reply to message from Patricia M Godfrey  on Mon,
24 Feb
> 2003 14:42:17 -0500
>
>
> > something analogous to WordPerfect's hyhenation soft
> > return? That is, a code or character that would permit a line to break
at
> > a given point without either a space or a hyphen?
>
> Huh? A soft  (established with VAriable DE) will break the line --
there's
> certainly no space|hyphen.
>
> > Such an entity is
> > needed after en dashes and before or after em dashes.
>
> Why do you "need" to wrap the line after em or en dashes? Or are you
looking
> for a method of adding a narrow space -- a bit of padding on either side
of the
> dash? There are several ways to set that up. Please clarify.
>
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