Sometimes InDesign will break lines at non-space characters immediately. I would start typing abcde..., and as soon as the string reaches the border, InDesign would break the line. Cool.
Other times it won't break the line at first. I would start typing abcde..., and once the string reaches the border it would first disappear and only after I have typed several more characters it would show up again, spreading across two lines. Not so cool.
How do I control this behavior?
(I hope it's okay I'm asking this here; my motivation is type-design related and I'm guessing type designers are more likely to know the answer.)
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Hyphenation is off, to answer @Nick Curtis's and other people's question.
When it breaks the line, whether immediately or only after a while, it does so cleanly.
(And I need it to break cleanly, without hyphens. A typical scenario: I want to fill a whole page with abc...xyz — and abc...xyz alone, without any hyphens.)
@Mark Simonson, my usual workaround is to insert a zero-width space after each character. I guess this method has pluses and minuses compared to yours.
Inserting a space after each character isn't the end of the world, but it would be much more convenient if you could just type your string and it would spread across multiple lines. And the fact that sometimes it works exactly like that makes me think there's got to be some way to control it, some setting I'm missing or something like that.
This is first time I hear about discretionary line breaks.
For my purpose, I don't see a major difference between discretionary line break and zero-width space, but it's good to have both in my toolbox.