A proposal for a new entity in the html charcter set:
no-break-hyphen --> &nbhy;
Since modern browsers use a hyphen for a possible line break
(something I had proposed myself a few years ago), I have now felt the
need for a no-break-hyphen. In my biology pages, I make lists of species
names. Sometimes these lists are in a narrow frame or table column. And
often I prefer that the users scrolls or resizes the window, rather than
that the species name breaks up. To prevent this when there is a space in
the name, I can use . But I can't prevent it when there is a
hyphen.... An alternate option woud be to invent a general {keep
together} tag.
Thanks, Marco