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October 25, 2011
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Style Non-breaking spaceband in editor

  • October 25, 2011
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Hello,


The usage of non-breaking space is more in our documents and our editor want to see this differently from a regular spaceband. Preferences are set to show spaces and tabs but it does not display non-breaking spacebands. Non breaking spacebands are inserted as .


Is there a way that I can style this differently and show it in the editor view?


Thanks


Karthik

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    ebenton1-Visitor
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    October 25, 2011
    Set charentdisplay=off should display all character entities as tags instead of glyphs. This would be true for all your character entities, not just your non-breaking spaces.
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    ptc-30630121-VisitorAuthor
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    October 25, 2011

    Hi Ed,


    We are using unicode characters to render any special characters and are not using character entities. I had set the charentdisplay=off but it still does not display it differently.



    Karthik

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    naglists1-Visitor
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    October 25, 2011
    There was no way to configure Editor (as late as 5.3 m110) as far as I could
    see to show the non-breaking space in a way that satisfied my authors. By
    configuring View, you can turn on spaces which then show as tiny dots (no
    one over 45 will be able to see them 😉 while the non-breaking spaces will
    not. Also, they are a tiny bit thicker on-screen, I believe.

    So, I wrote code that would search for non-breaking spaces, wrap the leading
    and trailing word in a pub font processing instruction, and updated our
    screen stylesheet to display the wrapped text in fuchsia. I also wrote code
    to strip out the highlighting.

    If you are interested, you can search the Adepters archive (if you are able
    to) for the code which I posted. Include the term "nbsp" and "nagai" and
    look for a post late in 2010. If you can't turn this up, let me know. I can
    dig it up and repost it.

    On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Karthik Kumar <
    karthik.kumar@merrillcorp.com> wrote:

    > Hello,
    >
    > The usage of non-breaking space is more in our documents and our editor
    > want to see this differently from a regular spaceband. Preferences are set
    > to show spaces and tabs but it does not display non-breaking spacebands. Non
    > breaking spacebands are inserted as .
    >
    > Is there a way that I can style this differently and show it in the editor
    > view?
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > Karthik
    >
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    ptc-30630121-VisitorAuthor
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    October 27, 2011

    Thank you so much Paul. I found the code from the archive. Will test and let you know.



    Karthik

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