Using full function word processors, pressing “ctrl + shift” with a space or hyphen will create non-breaking hyphens without allowing line breaks. At the end of a line, the word processor reads the endnote hyphen as something allowing it to break to the next line. My bibliography is being output with many innapropriate linebreaks-- for instance, splitting consecutive reference number ranges, splitting page ranges, and splitting hyphenated words that should never be separated on consecutive lines.
Is there a way to prevent endnote from breaking at hyphens, since endnote 8 does not have ctrl + shift + - fucntionality?
Examples of my picky issues follow:
This statement completes here.^17-
^19
instead of
This statement completes
here.^17-19
Other annoying breaks include chemical names, such as line breaking after the hyphen in something like
n-
alkanes
when I would prefer just putting the whole thing on the next line,
n-alkanes
or splitting page numbers at the end of a line,
221-
223.
I hate this, page numbers should never be separated.
221-223.
Any help using endnote to create nonbreaking hyphens will be greatly appreciated!!!
Every now and again, I do a change text on the whole of my library, on the pages field converting the “-” to an alt+0150 (with num lock on). This doesn’t seem to work if you try the ctrl+shift hyphen (which inserts a regular space).
I don’t know if it is safe to do globally on all fields. Actually, I am hard put to find an example of a hyphen in my library that probably shouldn’t be non-breaking…
I think this used to be documented somewhere, but I find no mention of this in the current help or PDF that comes with EndnoteX2.
After testing this suggestion, I found that even with the alt-0150 hyphen, Word still does it’s linebreak thing. Perhaps theres something else I’m missing to make your suggestion work?
After testing, I see you are absolutely correct. en-dash and em-dash ARE breaking characters. My perusal of the internet suggests that Windows using some sort of code only interpretable by MS when you type the shift/crtlplusdash, and I can’t figure out how to insert the U+2011 Unicode character into Endnote, If I copy paste it from Word - where it looks like a space, it comes up as blank.
Sorry. Maybe the Endnote developers or Unicode geeks have a suggestion here.
