Despite the fact that I said in another thread that I was going to upgrade to a more powerful word processor, I still haven't done it.
My current problem is with things breaking across lines. I have non-word groups of characters such as "a=b/c" which I want to keep together on one line as if it were a word. But it breaks so that I get "a=b/" at the end of one line, and "c" on the next line which looks terrible. Many if not most word processors have the facility to deal with this. You just select the text and then a menu item that tells it not to break the text. I can't find this in Pages. Is it possible?
Edit:
After much more searching, it appears that there is no function in Pages to keep characters together, and we must depend on the attributes of the various unicode characters. There is no non breaking slash, but there is a unicode code-point called the word joiner, u2060 which is essentially a zero width non breaking space which is supposed to prevent line breaking wherever it occurs. However, I tried it and it doesn't work in Pages.
So, after a bit of messing around, the simplest solution that I found was to use the normal non-breaking space which is easily entered from the keyboard (option-space) and after entering it, select it and change the font size to 1 point. It looks good and keeps everything together.
Last edited by Bob_00001; 05/26/16 06:40 AM.
