Displaying space caracters

[Christophe Lopes]

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--------BE

in notepad result is:

Name Age From
Kris 22 UK
Jane 34 BE

The view of columns are note readable by eyes …

Anyone have an idea how to fix it ?

Regards

[Christophe Lopes]

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

[Claudia Frank]

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

[guy038]

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

[AdrianHHH]

For actually displaying the space characters see menu => View => Show symbol => Show white space and tab.