Is there a way to prevent a word with a hyphen from being split when wrapped?

Question

If I write a word that itself contains a hyphen, and it happens to be near the end of a line, then it will get split at the hyphen during word wrapping.

But sometimes this has undesirable (to me, anyways) results. For example, in a recent post I made, I typed this:

- The active chemical in most consumer-grade CA glues† is ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate (CAS [7085-85-0][cas]).

And it ended up rendered like this:

If "7085-85-0" was actually a word, it'd probably make sense, but it's a numeric identifier whose format contains hyphens, so it's a little awkward to split it. Plus, only one character ended up on the next line.

Is there some way (or hack) to prevent certain words from being split, when that word contains a hyphen? I.e. to have it be treated like a non-hyphenated word?

Answer 1

Replacing the - with a non-breaking Hyphen works as well: ‑

Giving: CAS [7085‑85‑0][cas] in your makrdown.

Or copy it as char:

‑

giving

CAS [7085‑85‑0][cas]

Result:

• The active chemical test to in most consumer-grade CA glues† is ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate (CAS 7085‑85‑0).

Without non-breaking hyphen:

• The active chemical test to in most consumer-grade CA glues† is ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate (CAS 7085-85-0).

Here is the Windows Character map tool to find and select that character:

Find it on Windows 10 via the Search: "Character" should do the trick

Answer 2

From this answer, looks like you can use a word joiner character  immediately before and after the dash. So in markdown it would look like this:

7085⁠-⁠85⁠-⁠0

The above text is 7085-85-0 with ⁠ before and after the dashes.

Live test:

• The active chemical in most consumer-grade CA glues† is ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate (CAS [7085⁠-⁠85⁠-⁠0][cas]).

Answer 3

Try homoglyphs:

test˗test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
test۔test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
test‑test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
test‑test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
test‒test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
test⁃test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
test−test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
test⁃test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
test−test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
testⲺtest..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
test﹘test..........................................................................................................................................................................................................