soft-enter

Hey,

I would like to get a text with a justify align but without single-lettered
words on the end of each line:

blah blah blah blah blah ...................................... a
comparison blah blah blah.....................................

the word 'a' is ugly there and should be removed to a next line. I have
tried <BR>'s and &nbsp;'s but it didn't help at all, cause there is no more
good-looking justify align after using them.
In MS Word it is probably called a 'soft enter'.

Any ideas??
Thanks,
Pawel

Pawel

"Pawel" <> wrote:

> I would like to get a text with a justify align

I suppose you mean align="justify" or its CSS counterpart
text-align: justify. It's usually a bad idea in HTML authoring.
For an explanation, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/justify.html

> but without
> single-lettered words on the end of each line:

Pardon?

> blah blah blah blah blah ...................................... a
> comparison blah blah blah.....................................

What's that supposed to mean? What do the periods mean? Please post a URL,
it's much better than trying to explain layout things in plain text.

> the word 'a' is ugly there and should be removed to a next line.

Well, if you just want to prevent the word "a" from appearing at the end of
line, then separate it from the next word with &nbsp; instead of a space.
That works no matter what the alignment is (though any no-break spaces
increase the risk of poor appearance of justified text).

> I have tried <BR>'s and &nbsp;'s

Why did you try <BR>? How did you use &nbsp;?

> but it didn't help at all, cause there is no
> more good-looking justify align after using them.

As I wrote, preventing line breaks (with &nbsp; or otherwise) increases the
risk of getting bad results from justification. But that's caused by the
very prevention of line breaks, not any particular method used for it.

> In MS Word it is probably called a 'soft enter'.

Hardly. And in any case, using your guess of a solution's counterpart in MS
Word isn't a good basis for writing a Subject line. Start from the problem,
not from the assumed solution (especially since the assumption is usually
wrong).

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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:07:20 +0100, Pawel <> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I would like to get a text with a justify align but without
> single-lettered
> words on the end of each line:
>
> blah blah blah blah blah ...................................... a
> comparison blah blah blah.....................................
>
> the word 'a' is ugly there and should be removed to a next line. I have
> tried <BR>'s and &nbsp;'s but it didn't help at all, cause there is no
> more good-looking justify align after using them.

Can you show an example of how you used nbsp?
Using &nbsp; instead of a normal space after each single-lettered word
should do the trick, I beleive, though I never tried it. Server-side
scripting to the rescue.


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