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Non-breaking spaces in text.
Hi,
I have a course with large chunks of texts that need to be justified, and one-letter words cannot be at the end of the line. In HTML I did this using non-breaking spaces after them, I wish to do the same in Storyline, but inserting a nbsp does not work, the word stays at the end of the line. Are the any ways to solve this problem?
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I’d like to add my support to getting non-breaking spaces, hyphens, etc. working in Storyline. I’m doing some multi-lingual stuff currently, and the typographic guidelines require certain words and characters to be kept together.
Alt+0160 works in update 1 and then it stops working in update 2 . Strange.
Hi Jacek,
What version of Storyline are you using? We're well past Updates 1 and 2 in all versions:
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Storyline 3, build 3.5.16548.0
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Storyline 360, build 3.24.17733.0
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Storyline 2, Update 13
I'd recommend always working on the latest update to ensure you have all those fixes and items in place.
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Still not working in October 2019 and it's a shame !
If you really really absolutely need this, you can try to insert an underscore in a color matching the background (probably white) instead of the protected space ;)
That's a good idea. I guess any character would do, as long as the colour matches just right.
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Good idea indeed, but still it poses a problem for accessibility and screen readers. Such a basic feature should be available as it's not hard to code that.
Hi Darren,
I'm glad that Stephan was able to share a helpful idea with you here.
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It looks like the issue of non-breaking space is not working, is actually related to Modern Text which is based on Microsoft's DirectWrite API.
If you change your Storyline to use classic text (by going to Design tab -> Fonts, and un-check "Use Modern Text"), then the non-breaking space should work properly.
But for sure Modern Text style provides a better text rendering result, so if you decide to change it back to Classic Text, the side effect would be losing all the benefits introducing from Modern Text.
(Classic Text is using Microsoft's Uniscribe API)
Unfortunately that doesn't work for me either. I've checked, I have never used modern text but the non-breaking space doesn't work. Just like Darren described it, I can insert it, it just won't work.
This is really making (editing) life more difficult than it should be. So, as mentioned by others a couple of years (!) earlier, I'm looking forward to a solution (i.e. non-breaking space insertable AND working).
Hello Training Service, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊
I appreciate you reaching out and sharing what you are experiencing as well as the troubleshooting that you've done so far.
I've opened a support case on your behalf so that you can work directly with one of our support engineers. You should be hearing from someone soon.
Any progress on non-breaking spaces?
Hello Caroline!
Thanks for reaching out. We do not have any updates at this time. We'll be sure to update this thread with any news so you're in the loop!
You can see what we are currently working on in our Feature Roadmap.
Have a nice afternoon!
