Non-breaking slash?

[zmook]

Does renpy have markup for *preventing* line breaks at unwanted locations? In particular, I want to make renpy treat phrases like "km/h" and "AC/DC" as single words, not breakable at the slash.

Unicode has official non-breaking space and non-breaking hyphen characters, but apparently no non-breaking slash.

It looks like I can make it work by typing "A\uFEFF/\uFEFFC" instead of "A/C", but man, is that ugly.

[m_from_space]

You could write your own text tag.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/custom_text_tags.html

[zmook]

All right then. This works as long as there's no nested markup within the {nb}…{/nb} tags, which is good enough for my current purposes.

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    def non_breaking_tag(tag, argument, contents):
        """Insert unicode non-breaking zero-width code point between every content character."""
        rv = []
        for txi in contents:
            if txi[0] == renpy.TEXT_TEXT:
                rv.append((txi[0], "\uFEFF".join(txi[1])))
            else:
                rv.append(txi)
        return tuple(rv)
        
    config.custom_text_tags["nb"] = non_breaking_tag

[Ocelot]

All right then. This works as long as there's no nested markup within the {nb}…{/nb} tags, which is good enough for my current purposes.

Be aware, that this wrecks autovoicing, and, as a consequence, reduces accessebility. It is fine if you are just using on abbreviations, just don't use it on actual words.

EDIT: I think, you can try WORD JOINER instead of ZERO-WIDTH NON-BREAKING SPACE. It might work better with automated readers.

[zmook]

WORD JOINER, ok.

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                rv.append((txi[0], "\u2060".join(txi[1])))

[Mihara]

Why not

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renpy.language_tailor('/',"WJ")

Where the '/' is whichever symbol that should be a non-breaking slash?

[Imperf3kt]

What if you used a backward slash instead of a forward slash?

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    "AC\\DC"
    

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.htm ... characters