We use Madcap Flare for our documentation, and it has an annoying property: if you happen to have the shift key down when you type a space, it inserts a non-breaking space ( ). Our documentation covers SQL, so things like CREATE TABLE are common and too often come out as CREATE TABLE. Not only does that mess up our page formatting sometimes (wide table sells, ugly line-wrap, etc), but there have been times when we've had to search the source for something and we've missed cases because of this.

I found the keyboard shortcuts in the settings and changed the global key binding for non-breaking space to something else that I won't type by accident, but it didn't help.

I searched Flare's forums and didn't find an answer there. We'd rather prevent Flare from inserting these than write post-processing scripts to remove them. Can we?

posted over 5 years ago

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Monica Cellio‭ staff

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