Slash Breaking

Question

This came up in a thread in the main FrameMaker forum: I'd like to be able to allow line breaks at slashes in some instances and suppress them in other instances within the same document. This could be by including a nonbreaking slash special character, similar to nonbreaking hyphens and spaces, or perhaps a simpler and more comprehensive solutiion would be a tool to suppress line breaks within a selected string, regardless of what characters it includes.

Orly5E82 · Accepted Answer

I've since also tried:Remove / from the text options (so default / use is non-breaking).Create a variable for the {hopefully} breaking instances:Name: U+002F SOLIDUS (breaking)Def: \u200c/\u200c(U+200c being ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER)Doesn't work.FM doesn't honor the semantics of \u200c.You steered me in the right direction. I made a variable of my RX/TX so that an end-of-line doesn't break at the slash. Placing a \ in front of the slash prevents it from breaking. Using Variable def = RX\/TX thanks!

_Linda_McMahon_ · Answer

I notice that this is old thread, but I, too, would find a non-breaking slash character handy, along with a non-breaking period/full-stop/dot/whatever you want to call it.

These would be very helpful when including code samples, as well as in other instances. I often find I have to spend a lot of time reformatting code just to avoid awkward line breaks. Being able to update some of it with non-breaking slashes and dots would really help with this.

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