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I wrote a 6-million characters concordance using MW 6.5; the (justified) text consists mostly of bibliographical references made up of an abbreviation followed by numbers, with full stops diving them, e.g: AA.12.23.4
I want to shift the file to NWP, but I've found that when a reference occurs by the end of a line, NWP (unlike NW 6.5) splits them, leaving the letters at the end of the line and putting the digits at the beginning of the following one, e.g.: AA.[new line]12.23.4
Does anybody know if there'a way to avoid this, i.e. to have a new line beginning ONLY after a return or space character?

Marco

Hi Marco, I'm sorry to say that there's no way for you to change this right now. However, I'd consider this bad behavior by the typesetter and will file a bug that we change it. Thanks for letting us know.

There would need to be some sort of optional arrangement -- perhaps with the default being "No break" in the case of a mixed letters and numbers and periods string, but with a user definable option of "Break at period/fullpoint" available for the case where you wanted a break for line wrapping with something like a long URL.

Actually, the case gets more complex -- a string like a URL will break at a slash (and I don't know what else). That might not be desirable if it wraps dropping just a couple of characters of a long string to the next line. That needs to be catered for too.

Cheers, Geoff

Geoffrey Heard, Business Writer & Publisher

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For cases when you want to break text apart, you can always use a zero-width space (U+200B).

As for something like a URL, which might break in unsightly ways, we have filed away the feature "keep text together on same line".