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How to insert a hard dash (non-breaking dash)?

Eileen Palsson

Hi, I need to use non-breaking dashes in our product names, since most of them start with R-... and we don't want that hanging at the end of the the line.

I found how to insert a non-breaking space, but not how to insert a non-breaking dash. Can you help?

Thanks!

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Eugen Styrz

Maybe non-breaking-spaces before and after the dash will fit your requirement. Of course only if having a space bevore and after the dash is an option.

Best, Eugen

Rodney Hughes

I also need a non-breaking dash!

the non-breaking space is essential for referencing Standards such as IEC 61850 whee the space is mandatory but annoying when it is at the end of a line (perhaps as a result of zooming the screen).

but that Standard has many sub parts such as IEC 61850-7-4 so I need a non-breaking dash.

I have just found the non-breaking Space symbol as <<+Insert>> then <<Symbol>> ... although a bit annoying it is so hard to get to compared to a keyboard short cut like in Word where I press Ctrl+Shift+Space

Andreas Berheim Brudin

You could always insert the unicode character non-breaking-hyphen (u+2011). To try it out, you can just copy the character ‑ and paste it. That should avoid a line break. Example:

this‑sentence‑will‑result‑in‑a‑very‑long‑line‑but‑because‑it‑uses‑non‑breaking‑dashes‑it‑will‑probably‑be‑line‑broken‑in‑the‑middle‑of‑a‑word‑or‑not‑at‑all.

this-sentence-will-result-in-a-very-long-line-but-because-it-uses-normal-dashes-it-will-most-probably-be-line-broken-just-after-a-dash.

Rodney Hughes

How do you insert a unicode character by the code when editing a Confluence page?

Danny Aponte

Thanks, copying and pasting that character "‑" worked for me!

Stevel Lintz

Yes, the Confluence editor is lacking (as for all Atlassian products). At least you can insert a non-breaking-space via the UI, by way of the +(Insert more content) :: Symbol popup. For the NBSP you need to click on its invisible spot at the left of the first row. Sadly, a non-breaking-hyphen is not represented there (where "sadly" is a euphemism for "angrifyingly").

Andrew Mason_am8lew

Go into the code editing (<> button) mode and replace the - with ‑

Rodney Hughes

I am still looking for a way to do this from WITHIN Confluence ... we are now v8

It is super-annoying having to open word, type a phrase with the non-breaking dash and copy/paste that over to Confluence

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