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Non-breaking spaces in Rise?
Hi. Is it possible to insert a non-breaking space into a lesson name (or elsewhere)?
I have a lesson whose name ends with "...Session 3". When viewing the course, the 3 wraps to the 2nd line in the contents pane on the left, as shown in the shot.
Hi there, Christine. On Windows keyboards with a number pad, you can use
Alt+0160to add non-breaking spaces to your Rise 360 text, including course and lesson titles. Yay!For now, it's not a feature that works with Mac OS. We'll let you know if that changes.
Hello team,
is there any update on this? This seems like a very simple change to make. Multiple languages are affected, especially French as was already highlighted before.
Line breaks like these are unacceptable:
Do we have any ETAs or anything you can give us? Thanks.
I'm sorry that I don't have an ETA for a fix, Lubomir. We will post any changes here!
Thanks. Needing same thing, too.
Hi there,
My colleague just found an workaround.
Says if you expect "Abcd Efghi" to be presented in the same line, and since now the non-breaking space won't work. the workaround is to highlight the space character, and change the font style, for example, apply bold, or change color. Then there you go.
It's more like a bug's side effect that we did observer a wider space has been presented before / after the style change. It will looks something like below, visually, more like having a double space between le and module.
"Aprés avoir terminé le module obligatoire « Introduction »,"
the only way to fix it would be to delete that space, and then add it back.
So, now use this weird behavior to set the space to be with different style can do the trick.
That's an excellent workaround! I just tried it and it works, so thanks!
All I did was change the font size of the space after « and before » by one and now it line breaks around it instead of in the middle of it.
Still very silly that we have to do this. Hope there's some plan to provide a long-term fix.
Dear Articulate Staff,
This is a must for most people that author in different languages, specially French for Canada, can you please provide an ETA for this fix?
Thanks in advance,
Fabian.Hi Fabian! Sorry, no news on a fix for this yet. If we make any updates that address this issue, we'll update you here.
Thank you. Much needed for French and English words with hyphens.
Hi Arith,
Thank you very much for this workaround!
To keep the text adaptative, I replaced the space by a dash (-) and applied to this text the colour of the background. This way, the text wil lnver split, whichever size the screen will be.
Sadly, it won't work for titles.
This is not really enjoyable to work with workarounds for such basic needs. Moreover, I don't know how the screen-reader will interpret that.
Thanks for the workarounds, need this function too!
Thanks for the workaround! It'll be interesting to see what happens to those spaces when we send the course for translation. But I figure I'll cross that bridge when I get there. 😁
Really hope the bug is resolved soon
!I found another workaround (based on Arith's suggestions). This works for me in Chrome:
- Right-click the paragraph where you want a no-breaking space.
- Click Inspect to bring up the inspector in your browser.
- Right-click the <p> tag that contains your text, then click Edit as HTML.
- Replace the existing space with the HTML character code for no-breaking space, that is:
This seems to work reliably and the no-breaking space is still there after I reload the page.
I also noticed that if you add more than one space in your text, Rise replaced all but one of those spaces with no-breaking space. So even if HTML has built-in protection against double spaces, Articulate has worked hard to allow you to make those typos. 😁
Hello! This is a feature that would be helpful for me too! We work a lot in French as well.
Following this thread for updates!
Thank you.
Adding my vote for this as well. Our use case (in addition to French language punctuation) is for measurements. Things like 50 m or 31 cm should not break across lines. It would be nice to be able to add the NBS as we do in Word. Thanks!
Very disappointed with Rise 360 developer.
Hi, is there any update on this? In Czech language, typography rules don't allow single character 'words' at the end of the line. In HTML " " entity inserted after the 'word' solves it. If we could get this at least in form of a button on the text edit context menu that would inject it as a hidden character, it would be awesome.
