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  2. Non-printing character in word processors - Wikipedia

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    Non-breaking space (°) is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position. Pilcrow (¶) is the symbolic representation of paragraphs. Line break (↵) breaks the current line without new paragraph. It puts lines of text close together. Tab character (→) is used to align text horizontally to the next tab stop.

  3. Help:Line-break handling - Wikipedia

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    It specifies where it would be OK to add a line-break where a word is too long, or it is perceived that the browser will break a line at the wrong place. Whether the line actually breaks is then left up to the browser. The break will look like a space - see soft hyphen below when it would be more appropriate to break the word or line using a ...

  4. Wrapping (text) - Wikipedia

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    A soft return or soft wrap is the break resulting from line wrap or word wrap (whether automatic or manual), whereas a hard return or hard wrap is an intentional break, creating a new paragraph. With a hard return, paragraph-break formatting can (and should) be applied (either indenting or vertical whitespace).

  5. Widows and orphans - Wikipedia

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    An orphan line is more easily deleted, either by inserting a blank line or by forcing a page break to push the orphan line onto the next page, to be part of the paragraph to which the orphan belongs. Similarly, an orphan word at the end of a paragraph can be relocated by forcing one or more words from the preceding text line into the paragraph ...

  6. Paragraph - Wikipedia

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    In word processing and desktop publishing, a hard return or paragraph break indicates a new paragraph, to be distinguished from the soft return at the end of a line internal to a paragraph. This distinction allows word wrap to automatically re-flow text as it is edited, without losing paragraph breaks. The software may apply vertical white ...

  7. Non-breaking space - Wikipedia

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    In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space ( ), also called NBSP, required space, [1] hard space, or fixed space (in most typefaces, it is not of fixed width), is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position.

  8. Wikipedia:Line breaks usage - Wikipedia

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    However, single line breaks in the source do have certain effects: Within a list, a single line break starts either the next item or a new paragraph; within an indentation (which, if marked up with leading colons, is really the definition part of a definition list), a single line break aborts the indentation and starts a new paragraph. Links do ...

  9. Talk:Line wrap and word wrap - Wikipedia

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    It seems to ignore the space between them and will output 7 letters on one line even though it can break the word. This may have been true once, but it is no longer; however, there remains a bug: if we are considering a word of length L and there are L characters left on the line, we will add the word plus a space, overflowing the line by one ...