[Framers] preventing 2-word product name from line breaks ?

Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 11:27:29 PDT 2016


Second this. Use the non-breaking space in the variable and do a
search-and-replace at the end of production or when you're bored and
staring at the screen.


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On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:29 PM, <john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com> wrote:

> Don't worry about remembering...at some point, just do a search and replace
> and change all occurrences to a variable. You want to use a variable for
> product names...sure as hell, at some point, marketing is going to change
> product names.
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> From:   "Monique Semp" <monique.semp at earthlink.net>
> To:     <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Date:   04/06/2016 12:24 PM
> Subject:        [Framers] preventing 2-word product name from line breaks ?
> Sent by:        "Framers"       <framers-bounces
>             +john.x.posada=us.hsbc.com at lists.frameusers.com>
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> Hello, Framers,
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> (Using FrameMaker 2015, but I don’t think that matters.)
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> I have a 2-word product name that I don’t want to break across lines. I
> know that I could always use a non-breaking space between the words to
> prevent line breaks. But that’s hard to remember to do all the time. And
> the search function treats the spaces as a diff, so if I’ve got
> inconsistent usage (some regular spaces, some non-breaking spaces), a
> single search won’t find everything.
>
> Another idea is to use a variable, with the space entered as a non-breaking
> space. But sure as the sky is blue on this gorgeous day in San Francisco,
> at some point I’ll forget and just directly type the product name without a
> space, and later edits will push it to the end of the line into a line
> break situation.
>
> The Format > Document > Text Options lets you specify “Allow Line Breaks
> After” chars, but doesn’t have a “Don’t Allow Line Breaks” option, which is
> what I really want here.
>
> Any suggestions for other approaches or utilities I can try?
>
> -Monique
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