Displaying space caracters
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Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a way to display space in notepad++ like any standard text editor.
Here an example to explain my issue:
We are going to display the next sentence in both notepad++ and a standard text editor like the default windows one.
“Hello, here i’m going to put 5 space caracters and then ending with a dot .”
Result in standard editor:
“Hello, here i’m going to put 5 space caracters and then ending with a dot .” --> the 5 space represent a certain amount of pixels
Result in Notepad++:
“Hello, here i’m going to put 5 space caracters and then ending with a dot .” --> The 5 space represent less amount of pixels.
So if i try to display a text representating a table, the normal view would be: (i’m using hyphens for space due to this page rendering who is deleting extra spaces …)
Name----Age-------From
Kris--------22--------UK
Jane-------34--------BEin notepad result is:
Name Age From
Kris 22 UK
Jane 34 BEThe view of columns are note readable by eyes …
Anyone have an idea how to fix it ?
Regards
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Well,
After some more research i finally figured it out … just by changing my font to another one with serif …
That was so basic that i’m ashamed …
Then topic RESOLVED
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Even when marked as resolved maybe someone else might find this interesting.
What you need is called a monospace font.
Nice article on CodeProject site.Cheers
Claudia -
Hello, Christophe, and Claudia,
The link given in your post, Claudia, is quite valuable ! On May 2014, on SourceForge forums, I posted a similar list of monospaced fonts, but yours is more detailed ! Thanks for sharing it :-))
So, Christophe, you could, also, glance at my post, from the link below :
http://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/331753/thread/5c8c669b/#2143
Cheers,
guy038
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For actually displaying the space characters see menu => View => Show symbol => Show white space and tab.
