[user error; not an issue]Allow autocorrect of regular hyphen to non-breaking hyphen

[CP16]

In Publisher, allow the use of the non-breaking hyphen shortcut in autocorrect definitions, or add a checkbox to replace all soft hyphens with non-breaking hyphens. I can use other special characters in autocorrect definitions, like em- and en-dashes, but it won't work with non-breaking hyphens.

[walt.farrell]

Just one comment: you have used both the term non-breaking and the term soft hyphen in your request. They are different items. 

[MikeTO]

I believe you're asking for the ability to auto correct a regular hyphen (not a soft hyphen) to a non-breaking hyphen. You can do this.

Create a text object and choose Text > Insert > Dashes & Hyphens > Non-Breaking Hyphen. Select just that character and copy it to the clipboard.

Go to Preferences > Shortcuts and choose the language. (Note that if you're not using UK or US English, you just manually select the version of English or you'll be editing the AutoCorrect list for the wrong language. This is a minor bug that's been around forever.) Type a regular hyphen into the Replace field and paste the non-breaking hyphen into the With field. Click the Replace button. That's it, I've tested it and it works fine. I also tested it with replacing a regular hyphen with a soft hyphen.

Cheers

[CP16]

On 1/9/2023 at 11:00 AM, walt.farrell said:

Just one comment: you have used both the term non-breaking and the term soft hyphen in your request. They are different items. 

I meant that I want to replace a hyphen that I add with a non-breaking hyphen every time. I have auto hyphenation turned off.

On 1/9/2023 at 4:09 PM, MikeTO said:

I believe you're asking for the ability to auto correct a regular hyphen (not a soft hyphen) to a non-breaking hyphen. You can do this.

Create a text object and choose Text > Insert > Dashes & Hyphens > Non-Breaking Hyphen. Select just that character and copy it to the clipboard.

Go to Preferences > Shortcuts and choose the language. (Note that if you're not using UK or US English, you just manually select the version of English or you'll be editing the AutoCorrect list for the wrong language. This is a minor bug that's been around forever.) Type a regular hyphen into the Replace field and paste the non-breaking hyphen into the With field. Click the Replace button. That's it, I've tested it and it works fine. I also tested it with replacing a regular hyphen with a soft hyphen.

Cheers

Thanks -- that worked. I did have English selected already and was updating the English autocorrect table. But in that table, when I tried to paste a non-breaking hyphen from an existing document within existing text that had a paragraph style applied, it didn't work. It either would paste nothing (blank), or would paste with all the formatting (in this case, it was a numbered list). I tested it thoroughly before posting here, but of course it's not doing it now...

I created a blank document and added artistic text, left it as [No Style], and inserted a non-breaking hyphen. Copied that, and it worked.