OK, fair enough--I did as you suggested, typing the following into
fresh document:
Moreover, when I, affected with admiration, said to him; My Master,
pray tell me, where had you this greatest Scinece of the whole World
He answered, I received such Magnalia from the Communication of
certain Extraneous Friend, who for cer-tain dayes lodged in my House
professing, that he was a Lover of Art, and came to teach me variou
Arts; viz. how, besides the aforesaid, of stones, and Crystal, mos
beautiful precious Stones are made much more fair than Rubies
Chrysolites, Saphires, and others of that kind. Also how to prepare
Crocus Martis ...
The word "certain" was at the beginning of a line. When I inserted a
optional hyphen, "cer-" went to the previous line. But with a hyphen
it all stayed on the lower line, as before.
I discovered Word's breaking zero-width space when corresponding with
Microsoft support person about a contrary problem, namely, when
inserted overstrike characters into words using field codes, Word wa
breaking the words after the field codes. So, for instance, if I type
q-acute in a word as an overstrike (I had to do this, since q-acute i
not a Unicode character), Word would break the word after the q-acut
at the end of the line. Which was, as you rightly observe
typographically abysmal. The solution was to insert the NONbreakin
nonspace, a Word character that had to be imported from the Window
version, into each of my automated overstrike shortcuts.
The most obvious application of the BREAKING nonspace (or zero-widt
space) is to break up URLs so they run over multiple lines, even i
they have no spaces in them. Admittedly, if my hyphens were workin
correctly, I wouldn't have as much use for them.
Hello Again -
From the description, I can't help but believe that the testin
methods
are skewing the results. Copying & pasting (especially from Text/HTML)
into a doc automatically throws in variables that would ordinarily not
be there in a typed document. If you want an honest test of how Word
2004 behaves, start with a new blank doc, type a line of text and
hyphenate a word at the end of the line. I truly believe you will find
that it does exactly the same as your "beloved Word 5.1A"... otherwise
there is some issue with the software (preferences or a library,
perhaps) that needs to be addressed.
Also, I have never heard of a "breaking nonspace" in more than 1
years
of using WordStar, Word, WordPerfect, WordPro, PageMaker, QuarkXPress,
InDesign & FrameMaker (to name a few). Nonbreaking spaces, flush
spaces, hair spaces, punctuation spaces, em spaces, en spaces, thin
spaces, figure spaces, nonbreaking hyphens, discretionary hyphens, yes
- "breaking nonspaces", no. Nor can I conceive of _any_ conditio
where
I would want a word to be split into two parts at the end of a line
without being hyphenated. Aside from being a grotesque grammatical
error it would be abysmally problematic in terms of reading
comprehensibility.
I readily admit that I by no means know everything, so if you are able
to recall more about this I would sincerely like to know about it. [A
day without learning is a day wasted!]
Regards |:>
