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I'm having trouble with citations such as:

(I:455)

There are no blank spaces at all there, but I'm getting line wraps at the colons, so that they sometimes end up looking like: (I:
455)

This is über-annoying! Any help?

Aaron

I'm afraid there's no solution for you currently- this is just the way the system typesetter likes to break the line. We might be able to modify the behavior for a future release, or add a "keep on same line" option.

An alternative would be to introduce a zero-width no-break space, as in Mellel. (Not sure how difficult this would be.)

Rolf

rwg wrote:An alternative would be to introduce a zero-width no-break space

Thanks for the idea Rolf, and for educating me! We have a solution, as the zero-width non-breaking space is part of Unicode (as U+2060) and Apple's typesetter handles it just fine. Here's what to do:

1. Place the caret after the ":" character.
2. Type the text "U+2060".
3. Select exactly the text "U+2060". Be sure not to include any surrounding characters.
4. Use the menu Edit > Convert > From Unicode Code Points.

You should now have a non-breaking space following the colon. If you use this a lot, it might be a good idea to add it to your QuickFix expansions. You can also use the menu Edit > Special Characters to insert non-breaking spaces, but it can be somewhat involved.

Thanks! That works. I'm really curious about why apple decided to make line breaks happen at such places. It is also really bad for URLS.