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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?
Please type "Alt+0160" where you want the non-breaking space to be!
Michel,
Thanks for that tip on non-breaking spaces. I'm happy to say that Storyline 2 addressed many of typographic limitations — though not all — and you can now enter en and em dashes:
en dash (–) "Alt+0150"
em dash (—) "Alt +0151"Still waiting and hoping for proper tabs, tables, and text wrapping...
Hi Darren,
Thanks for compiling your testing notes! You certainly had a fair go at solving the problem. I had another go myself and experienced the same behavior – my sincere apologies!You are correct that non-breaking spaces do NOT currently work in Storyline 360.
I have since found a few other feature requests submitted via our feature request form, and I've logged an additional feature request in your behalf. You're in the right place, and we'll post all updates here once we have them!
Many thanks.
I'll look forward to seeing the changes...
Still not working in October 2019 and it's a shame !
If Michel's suggestion doesn't work, you can also type SHIFT+ENTER where you want the line to break. That will insert a soft return (i.e., start a new line without starting a new paragraph). It's labor intensive if there are a lot of instances, and you might have to go back later and delete the soft return if any text editing impacts the wrapping. But it does allow you to control exactly where the lines wrap.
Hi Darren,
It worked on my end. I used the number pad at the right side of my keyboard with NumLock enabled. Hope this helps.Any progress on non-breaking spaces?
To my knowledge there is no way to do a non-breaking space. It is one of a number of typographic functions that have yet to be implemented, e.g., proper tabs, em and en dashes, text wrapping or filling odd shapes. I know that more sophisticated text support has been a common topic on the forum and suggest you make a feature request. The more requests they get about items the likely they are to implement them. (Stepping down from my soapbox...)
Two workaround options in the interim that might be very painful to do but should work . . .
1) Have the text set up in another program, like Word. Take a screenshot and insert that into Storyline as a graphic.
2) Create your text in HTML pages and insert it in Storyline as local web objects.
ALT+0160 works for me. Have you tried using the right-side numeric keyboard?
As of 2018 Alt-0160 does not work in Storyline360, whether using number row or numeric keypad or even the Symbol menu where it is called 'NO BREAK SPACE'. Pretty underwhelming.
Alt + , not Alt -
