Several people have written to me to ask whether they could keep certain words together, as in "The Who", or "Chevy Chase". I was about to compose a FAQ entry saying, "Sorry, no," when I decided instead to at least make it possible.
You'll need to generate the Unicode "non-breaking space" character, \u00A0, and place it between words you wish to keep joined. How you generate that character is operating system-specific. perhaps users can leave tips for each other here.
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A good resource on this topic for Persian language could be found here (the text is in English):
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/rfpit/persianword/zwnj.htm
Alireza,
Thanks for the link. I have added the "zero-width non-joiner" as a legitimate word character, along with the non-breaking space.
Cheers!
A ripe opportunity for someone to pop together a script to take the desired text and a list of phrases to keep together, then regex them and replace the spaces with the requisite character, ready for feeding to Wordle.
Alt + 0160
Jonathan at 72 years old and an avid collector of experiences, the Worble fascinates me ! have been a student of general semantics for years and followed S I Hayakawa and Antole Rapaport and read ETC religiously ! Worble has tremendous educational value ! I am not a Teche but I feel you have created a learning tool for language ! To me it is as relevant as the science behind Google which is every-man's encyclopedia ! I congradulate you for
educating through technology!
Great tool!!!
Wikipedia has some keyboard entry methods
OPTION+SPACE: Mac OS
ALT+0160: Microsoft Windows
COMPOSE, SPACE, SPACE: Linux
CTRL+K N S: vim (see vim digraphs)
CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE: Microsoft Word
CTRL+SPACE: WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org
CTRL+SHIFT+U00A0: GNOME
Insert | Symbol dialog box (Latin-1 subset, after ~): many office applications
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space
Use Alt+255 instead of the space bar when entering text directly into Wordle to include phrases (i.e. multiple words separated by spaces).
I just used it successfully.
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