Non-breaking spaces and hyphens

[Denial]

This forum might be able to answer a question that has been bugging me since the recent new-format Eng-Tips landed on us with an unexpected THUMP. Under the old system, we could include a non-breaking space in our text using "[ ]". Under the new system that text string in uninterpreted, and appears as its raw text. Does the new system offer a method to achieve a non-breaking space?

Related. Does it offer a method to achieve a non-breaking hyphen?

 

[Eufalconimorph]

Type one. I don't what your OS/system is set up for, but for me (NixOS defaults or Windows with WinCompose) it's Compose Space Space for non-breaking space.

Not sure what you mean by a non-breaking hyphen. That's not a standard character name in Unicode.

Also this is the programming language engineering forum, probably not where you intended this to be.

 

[ghostdigital]

This forum might be able to answer a question that has been bugging me since the recent new-format Eng-Tips landed on us with an unexpected THUMP. Under the old system, we could include a non-breaking space in our text using "[ ]". Under the new system that text string in uninterpreted, and appears as its raw text. Does the new system offer a method to achieve a non-breaking space?

Related. Does it offer a method to achieve a non-breaking hyphen?

You've been posting using the html code editing option by clicking the </>? The WYSIWYG editor seems to work well to achieve a non-breaking spaces by just typing the space bar on your keyboard..

I suspect that for security and potential hacking reasons the forum folks disabled selected html code.

 

[Denial]

Thanks, Eufalconimorph. I meant my post for the "Engineering Language/Grammar Skills" forum.

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[Denial]

Apparently I have "insufficient privileges" to participate in the Language/Grammar forum. I can think of some language to describe that state of affairs, but it might be a bit ungrammatical.