Line break disabling symbol?

[Jan Kucera]

Hi,
time to time, I get http://
www.link.com to get breaked this way. How can I disable possible breaking
after / or similar characters?

Thanks,
Jan

 

[Mary Sauer]

Select the paragraphs that contain the lines you want to keep together.
On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Paragraph
Breaks tab.
Select the Keep lines together check box.
or
Widows and orphans are single lines of text in a paragraph that print at the top
or bottom of a text box or column. You can choose to avoid separating these
lines from the rest of the paragraph.

Select the paragraphs for which you want to prevent widows and orphans.
On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Paragraph
Breaks tab.
Select the Widow/Orphan control check box.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Mary -

I don't think those features apply here, do they?

The way I understand the question it's a matter of the URL splitting as a
result of the line where it starts wrapping to the next line of a para in
the same text box, same column. I don't know of any formatting attribute
that will prevent that from happening. The nature of the / character allows
the URL to get separated by a natural line break and it isn't affected by
hyphenation settings. Is there any such thing as a "non-breaking solidus"?

My primary remedies have been to use a manual line break before the URL,
change the width of the text box or tamper with the font/size/spacing on a
one-by-one basis. If there is a better method in Pub or Word I'd sure like
to know also.

 

[Mary Sauer]

There is no good way to fix this. I have used the character spacing. I don't
really know what applies. I have read the help, but it is no help. Actually the
quotes I used are from help. There are very long URLs that no matter what you do
you are not going to get them on one line.

Maybe JoAnn knows.

 

[Jan Kucera]

Hi Mary, CyberTaz, thank you both for your answer.
Actually I was pointing out the behaviour described by CyberTaz, however,
thanks Mary to explaining the Window/Orphan thing, I can't understand why
there is no single word in the help about it or what is it for.

I don't mind if URL breaks after slash, if it isn't one of these just after
protocol. However, my question was rather general - for the "non-breaking
solidus" , slash being just for an example.

So as I understand, this cannot be done. Thank you for your kindly help.
Jan