Zettlr: [Feature request] Formatting Marks

[dagdrommer]

While writing a text it happens from time to time that several spaces creep in. This is not tragic after compiling with pandoc, though I would suggest to implement optional formatting marks, as they are common in most Office-Suits (e.g. showing a light grey dot where a space is used). I am sure that this feature will lead to more tidy (and satisfying) markdown documents.

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[nathanlesage]

Oh, this shouldn't be too hard, I figure!

[boutil]

Codemirror has a trailing space addon.
Maybe this, plus the custom CSS trick to show line ends mentionned in the documentation, can be activated/deactivated by an additional button on the toolbar?

[canpolat]

Isn't this about showing all whitespaces in a document? Here is a screenshot from Noteapad++:

[dagdrommer]

Isn't this about showing _all_ whitespaces in a document? Here is a screenshot from Noteapad++:

Yes, this is exactly what I imagined.

Maybe also including our friend the pilcrow . :)

Especially in a language like Markdown this can be helpful to keep an overview: E.g. multiple whitespaces and a simple paragraph are interpreted as a paragraph/break.

[canpolat]

Maybe also including our friend the pilcrow

The pilcrow can be added via custom CSS (see documentation)

I don't know much about CSS that's why I'm asking: would it be possible to add all whitespaces using CSS? If that's possible, I suppose I can send a PR to update the documentation.

Edit: Aaaand, I think it would be nice to keep pilcrow separate from spaces and tabs. This is obviously about personal preference, but I like seeing all spaces and tabs in my editors but I never want to see pilcrows.

[dagdrommer]

The pilcrow can be added via custom CSS (see documentation)

Thank you very much!

Edit: Aaaand, I think it would be nice to keep pilcrow separate from spaces and tabs. This is obviously about personal preference, but I like seeing all spaces and tabs in my editors but I never want to see pilcrows.

I advocate that too.

[dagdrommer]

I don't know much about CSS that's why I'm asking: would it be possible to add _all_ whitespaces using CSS? If that's possible, I suppose I can send a PR to update the documentation.

I googled that for a while and it seems, that it is (yet) not possible to achieve that with CSS. It can be easily replaced using Java, or you can set a custom font which has a symbol for whitespaces. Source

Furthermore Visual Studio Code recently added this feature into their CSS-Settings. Source

[canpolat]

My googling did not turn anything much either. I suppose this needs to be implemented in code (if possible).

[boutil]

Indeed the trailing space addon fulfills only a little part of what is needed.
I found this addon cm-show-invisibles, which seems to do exactly what @dagdrommer wants.

[nathanlesage]

The plugin looks a little bit overly complicated. But I think an overlay mode will do just fine for this

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