Non-breaking space in the Publisher?

[Nashorn]

Does the publisher has non-breaking spaces in text frames?
I need a space that is not stretched when the text is justified.
I have to write the name of the French supermarket Super U.
In justification, the space between super and U is stretched and that looks totally stupid.

Thanks!

[Jowday]

9 minutes ago, Nashorn said:

Does the publisher has non-breaking spaces in text frames?
I need a space that is not stretched when the text is justified.
I have to write the name of the French supermarket Super U.
In justification, the space between super and U is stretched and that looks totally stupid.

Thanks!

Text -> Insert - > Spaces and tabs -> Narrow Non-Breaking space

Also scenario for text assets @sfriedberg ? Eg. Super<Narrow Non-Breaking space>U

[thomaso]

21 minutes ago, Jowday said:

Also scenario for text assets? Eg. Super<Narrow Non-Breaking space>U

Just in case: You may assign a keyboard-shortcut for these glyphs.

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[thomaso]

9 hours ago, Jowday said:

Also scenario for text assets? Eg. Super<Narrow Non-Breaking space>U

Another option: You can assign an auto-correct text replacement shortcut. It also accepts and respects these special glyphs, e.g.:

[Miron]

In Polish it is a mistake to leave linking words (a, z, w, u, i, o, od, na, etc.) at the end of the line. There was a great plugin for InDesign which could change a space between a linking word and the word behind into a non-breaking, flexible space. It was very usefull especially when working with books.

Do you know any trick/solution which could help automate this task in Affinity Publisher?

[thomaso]

Hi Miron,
Welcome to the Affinity forums!

In addition to the hints above about adding the non-breaking space while typing you can use the Find & Replace panel to search in your document for those single characters & character combination to replace normal spaces after (and/or before) them with non-breaking spaces.

Using the Regular Expressions option for defining the search & replace commands will fasten the procedure for the entire set of various letters once its setup properly. Unfortunately we currently can't save a Find & Replace setting, so for future use you could copy/paste the two lines for instance as text objects in the Asset panel to make it available for later use and application-wide for all documents.

See the Help for a few hints about Regular Expression in Affinity & links to detailed websites:
https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/find_and_replace.html?title=Find and replace

For further community help about Regular Expressions I recommend to start a separate, new topic especially for this concern.

[walt.farrell]

There are several topics about Polish conjunctions and using regular expressions (also known as GREP or regex) with Find & Replace to fix them.

This is probably the best post to describe the find/replace strings that are needed:

 

[Clayton King]

Alt-space in windows brings up the minimize/maximize flyout. What's the keyboard shortcut in windows for a nonbreaking space?

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, Clayton King said:

Alt-space in windows brings up the minimize/maximize flyout. What's the keyboard shortcut in windows for a nonbreaking space?

Alt+Space works fine for me on Windows. It does underline the menu items, but nothing else happens and the non-breaking space is inserted. There is no flyout/dropdown activated.

But if it's causing a problem for you, you can change it in Settings, Shortcuts: