Re: long dashes in Word and OpenOffice

In message <01c80f76$46a5fce0$LocalHost@default>, Michael R N Dolbear <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Joann Zimmerman <jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

projects in idiot mode: doyble hyphens for any kind of dashes longer
than short, and no smart quotes. Unfortunately, there are side
effects:
I've never been able to persuade Word that the "double hyphen means
long
dash" thing actually means it; it keeps doing line breaks between the

two hyphens.

Word has a non-breaking space so -&nbsp; -, so to speak, would do what
you want.
Indeed making the second hyphen a non-breaking hyphen (hard hyphen,
Ctrl-Shift-hyphen) might do what you want.

Or you can get a non-breaking space in Word by typing Ctrl+Shift+space. So it's really easy to just type Ctrl+Shift+space followed by Ctrl+Shift+hyphen twice.

I also have Smart Quotes permanently turned off, at least partly to avoid odd symbols when copying and pasting from Word into email, Usenet etc.

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