[Framers] Non-breaking en, em dashes

[Rick Quatro]

An inelegant video showing an inelegant solution (about 3 minutes):

http://www.rickquatro.com/resources/NonBreakingEnDash.mp4

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
rick at frameexpert.com
585-729-6746 NEW!



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From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com> On
Behalf Of Lin Sims
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 1:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Non-breaking en, em dashes

Alas, that does not work. This is part of the bug.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Pat Christenson <
Pat.Christenson at morningstar.com> wrote:

> Go to Format > Document > Text Options.
>
> In Allow Breaks After, the four characters (default) are slash, 
> hyphen, en dash, and em dash. Delete the ones you don't want and click
Apply.
>
> Pat
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2018 9:33 PM
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> Subject: [Framers] Non-breaking en, em dashes
>
> Used to be if you put an en dash in front of something with no space 
> between, the en dash would stick to the something if it wrapped to the 
> next line.
>
> It doesn't do that anymore, which is bad for me as I use it instead of 
> a hyphen to indicate negative numbers. This has been reported as a bug 
> to Adobe, but until they fix it (soon? please?), is there a *trivial 
> *solution/workaround?
> (By trivial, I mean minimal number of steps and time involved.)
>
> For those interested, the bug is here:
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