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• • March 18, 2015 at 5:23 pm #74028
    Lindsey Martin

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    Here’s the sentence: ‘Even with only 52 cards, there is a mind-blowing number of possible ways to arrange them—the answer is a 68 digit number: 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.’ This is in a paragraph with hyphenation turned on. The number is breaking, without a hyphen, thus: …66 | 0,…

    — applying No Break to ‘660’ does nothing.
    — applying No Break to ‘660,’ gives …660 | ,…
    — applying No Break to ‘660,6’ gives …660, | 636…, an acceptable result but not logcial behaviour; if para. is edited or tracked, the error recurs in another part of the number.

    Fiddling with the tracking also produces odd breaks. I would expect that ID would see the numerals between commas as short words. Evidently not. As far as I can tell, one has to catch this by eye. Turning off hyphenation and justification doesn’t help.

    Bug? Or, have I missed something obvious?

    Thanks,
    Lindsey

  • March 19, 2015 at 1:48 am #74032
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    Would adding a “discretionary line break” after each comma help – see also
    https://creativepro.com/discretionary-line-breaks.php
    and (part way down)
    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/editing-text.html

    Chris.

  • March 19, 2015 at 6:17 am #74035
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yup. You could use a GREP find/change to search for ,(?=\d) and replace with ,~k
    That will find all combinations of a comma followed immediately by a digit and replace it with a comma followed by a discretionary line break.

  • March 19, 2015 at 9:24 am #74043
    Lindsey Martin

    Member

    Chris, David,

    Thank you. That helps, esp. as DLBs are stripped out upon export to epub.
    I’m going to report it as a bug though.

    Lindsey

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