How do you increase the font size of spaces and tabs?

[hdegyor]

I looked at the preferences and I changed all the font sizes of spaces to 15 and the spaces still appear at ~2 pixels in size. Any ideas on how to increase the font size so I don't need a microscope to see the spaces?

[ak47wong]

Are you talking about the little symbols used to represent visible spaces, tabs, and end-of-line characters? I don't think they can be changed, but I definitely agree there should be a way to make them larger and clearer. I especially dislike the "tab" symbol; that little five-pixel squiggle is really hard to see. And spaces are just one pixel!

Andrew

[hdegyor]

Yes, that's exactly what I am referring to. That was one the primary things I was looking for in a text editor because I am editing tab delimited text files.
Any one know if this will be a future development for Text Pad or can I request that to be one of them?

[Bob Hansen]

Would it help to make the TAB character a keyword that might be colored with a syntax file? Haven't tried it myself, just tossing out an idea.....

[MudGuard]

Another thing you can do to make them more visible (without making them bigger - sorry):
In the color configuration of the document class, there is an entry for "Visible Spaces", you can select a color combination with more contrast there.

Ok, this will also influence spaces, fixed spaces, and paragraphs.
You could uncheck paragraphs and spaces in the Configure - Preferences - View - Visible White Space, but this is unfortunately not a per-document-class setting though it would mean that paragraphs and spaces are not visible for all document classes.



Ok, it seems I have just discovered a bug (already reported):
if only one of tabs or spaces is checked, the background-color is applied for both, but the symbol appears only for the checked one.