Punctuation problems in Pages

When I type decimal numbers in Pages (for example, .331) and the number occurs at the end of a line, the default seems to be to keep the decimal (period) on the preceding line but push the numbers to another line. In other words, the entire number does not stay together on one line. There has to be a name for this, but I'm not sure what it is.
Any ideas for how I can override this? I just switched to Pages from Word and am otherwise quite happy with Pages, but never had this problem with Word.

Hello
I will describe what I get on my French system.
If there is a space, a period then a digit, only the digit move to the line below as you described.
If I replace the period by the comma which is the decimal separator in use here, same behavior.
If I put a 0 before the period or the comma, the syntax analyzer treats the whole as a number and move it to the line below.
I guess that in the first case, the period or the comma are treated as punctuation characters (which, from my point of view, is the logical behavior) and treat them as decimal separator in the second case (which is logical too).
I tried to put a NO BREAK NARROW SPACE ($202F) (I gave them an orange background to show them) between the period and the first digit.
I was really surprised because after this change, the number behaved as if it was glued to the word before.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 19 juillet 2011 19:47:28
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