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#760 Show non-breakable space
A space and a non-breakable space are now shown equally: as a space. It would be great if user has an option to show non-breakable spaces in a different way. e.g. as space with grey background, as other* tools do.
*) I don't know which tools, but it was remarked on the OmegaT discussion list.
implemented in /trunk.
Maybe it is better to use Markers for it (instead of yet another color, print a dot over the whitespace or something), but I haven't played with markers yet.
OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice show non-breakable spaces with a grey background.
Didier
Closing...
This feature was implemented in the released version 2.5.2 of OmegaT.
I am used to seeing a nonbreakable space as º - as in doºnotºhyphenate
<<I am used to seeing a nonbreakable space as º - as in doºnotºhyphenate>>
That was the purpose of Martin's comment on "markers", but that will be (when/if that happens) the purpose of another RFE.
Didier
LibreOffice uses the greyed space.
Not to talk down the new feature, which I find very useful, but all it does is to apply grey highlighting to the non-breaking space character to distinguish it from the normal space character. The non-breaking space character as such has always been a "function" in OmegaT. It's a unicode character and the non-breaking function is applied by the application, both OmegaT (i.e. Java) and the native application of the file being translated.
To use a different character, such as the masculine ordinal marker as suggested by Vito, would require substitution of the actual character.