<noBreakHyphen> (Non Breaking Hyphen Character)

This element specifies that a non breaking hyphen character shall be placed at the current location in the run content. A non breaking hyphen is the equivalent of Unicode character 002D (the hyphen-minus), however it shall not be used as a valid line breaking character for the current line of text when displaying this WordprocessingML content.

The behavior of a non breaking hyphen in run content shall be to display using the same glyph as the hyphen-minus character, however without being a valid line breaking position (unlike the hyphen-minus character).

example: 
This makes a very very very wordy and deliberately overcomplicated sentence.

Normally, just as shown above, this sentence not would be displayed on a single line as it is long enough to require line breaking (given the width of the current page). However, if a hyphen minus were inserted after the letter s in sentence, as follows:

<w:r>
  <w:t>This makes a very very very wordy and deliberately overcomplicated s-entence.</w:t>
</w:r>

This would allow a break at that position, and break the word after that character:

This makes a very very very wordy and deliberately overcomplicated s-entence.

If this was not desired, the non breaking hyphen character could be specified as follows:

<w:r>
  <w:t>This makes a very very very wordy and deliberately overcomplicated s</w:t>
  <w:nonBreakHyphen/>
  <w:t>entence.</w:t>
</w:r>

This would display a hyphen character, but would not allow the text to break at that location:

This makes a very very very wordy and deliberately overcomplicated s‑entence.

Parent Elements

<r> (§7.1.2.87); <r> (§2.3.2.23)

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_Empty"/>