In changes.txt, override the snippet, "Allow linebreaks after in-word hyphens" for a single instance

Question

We have traditionally NOT allowed lines to break in-word hyphens. But for this Jonah book we want to experiment with this option. On the View/Edit > Changes.txt tab I added the code snippet from the very helpful buttons at the right--line 7 in the screenshot. This works great--thank you for these helpful snippet suggestions! However, in one paragraph I need to avoid an orphaned suffix string, so I added line 9 and then used "Expand paragraph by one line" in my PTX Print Layout window. 

The result of this configuration is below--same result : Line 7 overrides line 9. When I comment out line 7 the word piriʼooareha-ʼuuri is correctly moved as a unit to the next line; however... all end-of-line in-word hyphens are treated as non-breaking, which is not what I want. 

So then I noticed (duh!) that line 7 allows the line break by inserting a zero-width space after the hyphen. So I tried this for line 9:

at JON 1:8 '(piriʼooareha)-\u200B(ʼuuri?”)' > '\1\u2011\2'

But the suffix was still orphaned. This regex code is above my power-OWL paygrade.

So how do I override the "allow linebreaks after in-word hyphens" code for a single instance? Or could this code snippet be tweaked for a narrower scope or something?

Comments

Many thanks, Phil. I finally got it to work. I've gotta remember that rule order matters.

Answer 1

Try reversing lines 7 and 9. Change the word you want to protect to the non-breaking hyphen and then the rule allowing the break won't apply.