Re: [EXTERNAL] [libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen

NPC -- Non-Printing Character [1]

The LibreOffice VCL canvas will apply "field" shading to a broad class of control and non-printing 
characters, we've asked to give them more distinction from fielded values [2]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character

[2] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58434


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From: John Kaufmann <kaufmann@nb.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 2:21 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen

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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