em-dash sticking to its left term

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#1

It seems in M$ Word that the default if for the em-dash always to stick with its left term when confronted with a line break.

In LO Writer, this seems not the case. One seems to have to first insert U+FEFF and then the em-dash. Is there a way to change the default in LO Writer?

#2

I thought to try search and replace. But it's behaving strangely. When I use a hex code in the search field (\u2014) it finds them. But when I put the same kind of code in the replace field, it replaces with the code (\ufeff or \u00e8) rather than with the character the code stands for. Why would the regular expression work in the search field but not in the replace field?

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
Sorry you have not had any responses so far. Hopefully someone might be
able to help in a while. Sometimes it is a good idea to "bump the thread"
(which my reply here will do) in order to get your question back to the top
of the mailing list.

I have no idea why that sort of quirkiness happens. I tend to use
copy&paste to fill find/replace boxes because i have often found that all
sorts of different systems seem to have odd such quirks.

It might depend on the platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) or even the specific
OS (Xp, Win10, iOS(?), Ubuntu, Mint, Mageia) so please feel free to give us
a clue if reasonably easy to do so.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Perhaps something in the "Auto-correct" thing being talked about in another
thread at the moment? Has that helped at all?

Good luck and regards from
Tom :slight_smile: