EinarFlydal wrote:The conversion happens when the pdf-files are printed in the printing house.
Inserting Protected Spaces, Hyphens and Conditional Separators
Non-breaking spaces
To prevent two words from being separated at the end of a line, hold down the Ctrl key and the Shift key when you type a space between the words.
In Calc, you cannot insert non-breaking spaces.
Non-breaking dash
An example of a non-breaking dash is a company name such as A-Z. Obviously you would not want A- to appear at the end of a line and Z at the beginning of the next line. To solve this problem, press Shift+Ctrl+ minus sign. In other words, hold down the Shift and Ctrl keys and press the minus key.
Hyphen, dash
In order to enter longer dashes, you can find under Tools - AutoCorrect Options- Options the Replace dashes option. This option replaces one or two minus signs under certain conditions with an en-dash or an em-dash (see OpenOffice Help).
For additional replacements see the replacements table under Tools - AutoCorrect Options - Replace. Here you can, among other things, replace a shortcut automatically by a dash, even in another font.
Definite separator
To support automatic hyphenation by entering a separator inside a word yourself, use the keys Ctrl+minus sign. The word is separated at this position when it is at the end of the line, even if automatic hyphenation for this paragraph is switched off.
EinarFlydal wrote:In both of the pdfs, the m dashes show correctly. The conversion of the m dashes to the even longer em dashes and the removal of space after the dash happens when printing just the one of the two pdfs.
EinarFlydal wrote:Hence, I suppose it cannot be the style guide nor the Exchange table in OOWriter? Or do you disagree? If so, where in the style guide could such a requirement be stated? The replacement table is empty.
EinarFlydal wrote:If I have understood rightly, the pdf-format should not possibly contain instructions or code that could make the space+dash+space come out as space+dash.
Is that rightly understood?
John_Ha wrote:I do not know a method where I can select a character and say "what is this character's Unicode?"
Bill wrote:In this case, you can use your Web browser. Just copy the character and paste it in a Google search box. ...John_Ha wrote:I do not know a method where I can select a character and say "what is this character's Unicode?"
="U+" & DEC2HEX(UNICODE(A2);4)
I had no diffitulty with the site, as long as I pasted the character into the web page's dialog box. However if I put the character in the URL, I also received %E2%80%93. E2 80 93 is the UTF-8 encoding for the EN DASH. The sixteen bits of hexadecimal 2013 are divided into groups of four, six, and six. The groups are used to form three bytes in the UTF-8 encoding. The prefixes for the three bytes 1110, 10, and 10, are specified in the encoding rules.John_Ha wrote:Thanks. I couldn't get the Unicode lookup site to work after the first time as, for some reason, each later attempt got results like %E2%80%93.
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