[Solved] Hyphenated words recognized as whole words

[Mahava]

I am putting together a document that has foreign words in it so the pronunciation of those words are spelled out. Is there a way to format the doc so the hyphenated words won't be divided onto two lines?

Example of what is happening:

And the King of Mitz-ra-yim said to the Ha-
iv-rit...

What I would prefer to happen:

And the King of Mitz-ra-yim said to the Ha-iv-rit
...

Or:
And the King of Mitz-ra-yim said to the
Ha-iv-rit...

I have the auto hyphenation turned off - these are hyphens that I am putting in the writing.

Thanks!

[acknak]

Greetings and welcome to the community forum!

Sorry, no. There's no simple way of preventing Writer from breaking words at hyphens.

The only way to prevent a word from being broken is to insert a zero width "word joiner" character at any position where Writer would otherwise break the word. In this case, each hyphen needs a WJ character before and after.

You can insert the WJ characters with Insert > Formatting mark > no width, no break. You can then copy/paste to other places.

You can use Edit > Find & Replace to replace hyphens in one operation.

[MrProgrammer]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

Insert → Formatting Mark → Non-breaking hyphen. The menu item may show you a keyboard shortcut. For mass changes, insert one in the document, then copy/paste it into the Edit → Find & Replace dialog thereby changing hyphens to non-breaking hyphens.

If this answered your question please go to your first post use the Edit button and add [Solved] to the start of the title. You can select the green checkmark icon at the same time.

[acknak]

... Insert → Formatting Mark → Non-breaking hyphen. ...

Ha! Sitting right there but I never even noticed it. Good catch!

The steps I gave are a general solution: it works to prevent a word break at any position. Mr Programmer's is simpler when you need a hyphen.

[Mahava]

Thank you - I will give this a try!