97271 - Viewing formatting marks in Editor

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 47038

(Core :: DOM: Editor, enhancement)

Description

[James "Kovu" Russell]

When contructing documents and Web pages with a lot of code, it really helps to
be able to actually see the formatting marks. Many competing HTML editors
include this, at least in part (FrontPage 98, for example, allows you to show
line breaks and paragraph marks). This makes it much easier to see when stray or
excess formatting abounds in your document. The general idea is as follows:

View-->Formatting marks-->Paragraph marks
                          Spaces
                          Tabs
                          Line breaks

with a checkmark next to each when it's on.

Following are the typically used symbols for these formatting marks:

The symbol for a paragraph mark is kind of a backwards P with two vertical strokes.

The symbol for the line break is an arrow pointing first down and then left
(kind of like on the Enter key of a keyboard).

The symbol for a space is typically a dot in the center of the character field

The symbol for a tab is typically a right-pointing arrow.

To see an implementation of this, you can go to Tools-->Options in Microsoft
Word and then check the appropriate boxes in the Formatting marks section of the
View tab. There is also a button that looks like a paragraph mark (a backwards P
with two vertical strokes) on the Word Standard toolbar which you can toggle the
view of these marks on and off with. I also recommend a button like this that
will toggle all marks that are checked in the menus on and off.

In the Word 2002, the paragraph marks that are shown even indicate the format
that they carry. For example, a paragraph mark for a paragraph that uses red,
bold, italic text will be red, bold, and italic to show its formatting. 

For all I know, this feqature may be WAY difficult to implement, but
implementing it even as far as FrontPage does would be nice.

Comment 1

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47038 ***

Comment 2

[sujay]

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