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Maria wrote:No need for the Redlers to blow up the file format.

Well it should not be exactly blowing up: My 75-page test document went up by 18 KB (~ 18 %) after indenting and recompressing, that should not be a big deal.

Why would anybody want to turn the indenting off? Does it impose some serious performance hit? (Just curious :)

If there is a problem with the one-big-line formatting, you can easily filter the main.xml through xmllint: $ xmllint --format main.xml > formatted.xml I’m not sure whether the xmllint comes with the OS, but I’d say it does. The formatted version is also nicer when you want to peek at the internals ...

That seems like a good idea to me. It could even be done as a contest (“design the best template for Mellel and win a week with the Redlers by the sea”), but from my viewpoint there is one substantial catch: the fonts. I do not remember what fonts are installed with OS X, but every good-looking thes...

I have no trouble *inserting* non-breaking space (I use the Alt+Space system shortcut), I just want them to be rendered visible. I use them for example to tie numbers with their units (25 GHz) and sometimes I do not remember whether I have used the non-breaking space or not.

nicka wrote:I think the request here is to make non-breaking spaces display differently from ordinary spaces (when 'show spaces' is on) rather then as identical light blue dots, as they do currently.

Right. I want to see non-breaking spaces, I do not want to see ordinary spaces.

Hello! In some languages (Czech, for example) one uses non-breaking spaces quite frequently. Would it be possible to add the non-breaking space to the list of displayable invisible characters? It could be rendered as Unicode 0x02fd (modified letter shelf) or something similar. And while I am writing...