I’m finding on my Mac that Shift-Opt-Spacebar isn’t giving me a non-breaking space.
I’m sure it’s because I’m running something in the background. My question is: how would I figure out what it is? I guess it’s more of a Mac question than a Dorico question. I’ve checked Settings>Keyboard>Keyboard Shortcuts.
Alternatively, is there a way to re-assign a non-breaking space to a different key command? I know it can’t be done natively, but perhaps there’s a hack?
i thought NBS was just option+space
That’s not working for me either. I had Opt-Spacebar assigned to Raycast, but quitting Raycast doesn’t restore it.
For general macOS use yes. But, not in Dorico.
Could this be related?
I’m wondering if Dorico maybe doesn’t recognize these changes to the modifier keys? I did try changing Option back to the native command, relaunched Dorico, and it still isn’t working.
EDIT: I just realized Opt-hyphen doesn’t give me a non-breaking hyphen either. I’m dead in the water. I can’t find a way to get a non-breaking character for the life of me. Even copy-pasting non-breaking characters from other projects isn’t working. GAHHH.
Is it intentional that you’ve switched round your metakeys?
What happens if you do Shift “Globe” Space?
Yes, I tried Mac’s modifiers but they drove me crazy. 30 year using a PC and I’m used to my key combinations, so I remapped everything to match PC.
I tried literally every iteration, no joy. It either does nothing or advances to the next syllable with no entry.
Well, I got around it for now by inputting a character, then Edit Single Lyric and changing it to a space. It’s a faff but it works.
I had this once , and it turned out I had Unicode on. Once I switched it off, everything was back to normal
That’s it! Thank you.
Dan, I’m having this issue while engraving in French. How exactly did you turn off unicode?
Do you have the multiple keyboard layouts turned on in the System Preferences >Keyboard? You can have a menu at the top of the window that quite clearly indicates U+ if you’re set n the unicode keyboard. You can also set some shortcut to navigate through the available keyboard layouts…
@MarcLarcher My co-worker, Katie, discovered that just using [shift, option, space] does the trick for us.
EDIT: We were just trying [option, space] before which worked in our previous finale workflow.
Maybe we didn’t have the unicode thing on to begin with…
Apparently, I misread the whole opening post.
My initial responses were based on the assumption that you were trying [option, space].
[Shift, option, space] is working great for us!
In Dorico, unbreakable space has always been shift-alt-space, which is not the shortcut used by macOS natively. I am glad you found out what the problem was and how to fix it!
