
If you are on a laptop that doesn't have a numbers keypad, HERE are instructions. To use one of the Windows shortcut commands (there are many!) you simply hold down the ALT button while you type 0160 using the numbers keypad on the right side of your keyboard. You will see the cursor jump to make a space but won't see anything else different on the screen. In the Given Name field type Mary, then ALT 0160, then Lou. Multiple adjacent non-breaking spaces won’t be collapsed by the browser, letting you force several visible spaces between words or other page elements. The keyboard shortcut for this is ALT 0160 and this does work in Legacy. HTML Non-Breaking Space ( ) The simplest way to add a space in HTML (besides hitting the spacebar) is with the non-breaking space entity, written as or. The parser seems to replace non breaking spaces by normal spaces, Ive tried using regular html entities, unicode characters, and hard-coding the non breaking spaces (typing alt + space on a Mac), no matter what I cannot get a non-breaking space in the parser output. In Windows there is a command for a "non-breaking" space which keeps two words together as a single unit. There is a trick to tell Legacy that you want this person to be referred to as Mary Lou. In the narrative portion of reports Legacy will only pick up the first name, Mary. She always went by Mary Lou and not just by Mary. Let's say you have someone in your file named Mary Lou Simmons.

A commonly used entity in HTML is the non-breaking space.

What Unicode means universal character encoding standard. Tuesday's Tip - Non-breaking Spaces (Beginner) The standard text coding for web pages is Western (ISO-8859-1) the iWeb software encodes all of its html pages as Unicode (UTF-8). Tuesday's Tips provide brief how-to's to help you learn to use the Legacy Family Tree software with new tricks and techniques.
