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Excellent! (I was wondering what happened to U+2011 as I investigated the "General Punctuation" 
group.) So it's just a matter of the Liberation family not covering the U+2011 codepoint - but a replacement 
glyph is provided. Thanks!

You used a term I don't recognize: "NPC".  My search turned up that it is a popular abbreviation for "non-playing character" 
in domains like WoW, Runelite and lots of other things of which I know nothing, but fortunately I don't think you used it in that context. I 
suspect it is close to that textually -- "non" <?> "character" -- but I decided I had best ask: ?


On 2021-03-24 14:56, V Stuart Foote wrote:
You've missed the one Unicode point that does exactly what you require, but its use will depend on 
the font in use.

U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

You can enter via LibreOffice Special Character dialog, or LibreOffice's Unicode toggle. That is you can 
type U+2011 and then <Alt>+X to toggle the glyph.

If the font in use does not "cover" the codepoint, you'll get a fallback replacement or possibly 
the no glyph value for the font.

When added to canvas the non-breaking hyphen character will receive NPC highlighting.


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I had always thought that the difference between a "dash" and a "hyphen" is that the dash is a 
character (that is, will not break a character string), while the hyphen hyphenates (that is, breaks at the end of a 
line if the character string following the hyphen is too long to fit on the line).  So, needing a non-breaking 
substitute for that horizontal bar on my keyboard, I invoked:
                         Insert > Special Character
to get (what I would call) a dash.

LibreOffice has such mid-height horizontal-bar characters in three character groups:
"General punctuation", characters:
         U+2010 (HYPHEN)
         U+2012 (FIGURE DASH)
         U_2013 (EN DASH)
         U+2014 (EM DASH)
         U+2015 (HORIZONTAL BAR)
"Mathematical Operators", character:
         U+2212 (MINUS SIGN)
"Box Drawing", character:
         U+2500 (BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL)

The five characters of the "General Punctuation" group mostly seem to just represent different 
widths of hyphen (despite three being called FIGURE DASH, EN DASH, EM DASH), in that in a character string 
each will end a line of characters if the string following is too long to fit. Only the HORIZONTAL BAR acts 
as a common character, such that the string of which it is a member will not break there; but it is very long 
to be used as a non-breaking hyphen.

The MINUS SIGN in the "Mathematical Operators" group has a special operation: It will break at the 
end of a line, but will itself move to the next line, to stay with the character following MINUS SIGN.

The BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL character acts like the HORIZONTAL BAR -- that is, as a true, 
non-breaking character -- but is also too long to be used generally as a non-breaking hyphen.

Is there a clean way to make a non-breaking dash/hyphen?

-John

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