Word-forming hyphen?

Question

The Interlinearizer automatically breaks words with hyphens in them and I cannot figure out how to join the hyphenated word together into a phrase with a single gloss.

Is there a way to tell the Interlinearizer that some hyphenated words are NOT to be broken up, but to be adapted as a single unit?

I tried using U+2011 (non-breaking hyphen) and adding it as word-medial punctuation (under Language Settings > Other Characters), but the Interlinearizer still split it.

Part of the issue is that there are many words where they should be hyphenated and have separate glosses for each part of the hyphenated word, so we cannot just define all hyphens as word-forming characters.

Thank you,

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Answer 1

One non-breaking alternative is U+2012, figure dash. When this character is specified as word-medial punctuation, the interlinearizer keeps both the text both sides of this character together.

U+2012 looks similar to en-dash; in fact, in Charis SIL the two are identical. This means that the difference between dash and (breaking) hyphen is visible.

When it comes to publishing, you have the option of replacing U+2012 by a non-breaking hyphen, if you want it to look like a hyphen.

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