Viewing non-breaking and narrow spaces as code?

veezh · 05-04-2015, 11:19 AM

Apologies if this is addressed in the user manual. I've had a look there, but haven't found the answer to my question.

Is there a way to show non-breaking spaces as

Code:

&nbsp;

rather than as highlighted blanks in the editor?

I'd also like to be able to view narrow non-breaking spaces and soft hyphens in the same way. At the moment, I can't even seem to get these highlighted. :-(

Any help greatly appreciated.

DiapDealer · 05-04-2015, 11:45 AM

If you want html entities rather than characters, you'll have to convert them yourself. If your code already contains entities (instead of characters) calibre will leave them alone unless you use the Beautify or Fix HTML tools (which will convert them to characters). There is no "Convert these unicode characters to html entities" tool. But it shouldn't be too hard to save some regex or a python S&R function to do what you want.

veezh · 05-06-2015, 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

There is no "Convert these unicode characters to html entities" tool. But it shouldn't be too hard to save some regex or a python S&R function to do what you want.

Brilliant -- thank you, DiapDealer, for this! I'm going to check it out now.

05-04-2015, 11:19 AM	#1
veezh plus ça change Posts: 101 Karma: 32134 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: France Device: Kindle PW2, Voyage	Viewing non-breaking and narrow spaces as code? Apologies if this is addressed in the user manual. I've had a look there, but haven't found the answer to my question. Is there a way to show non-breaking spaces as Code:   rather than as highlighted blanks in the editor? I'd also like to be able to view narrow non-breaking spaces and soft hyphens in the same way. At the moment, I can't even seem to get these highlighted. :-( Any help greatly appreciated.

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05-04-2015, 11:45 AM	#2
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,569 Karma: 204127028 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	If you want html entities rather than characters, you'll have to convert them yourself. If your code already contains entities (instead of characters) calibre will leave them alone unless you use the Beautify or Fix HTML tools (which will convert them to characters). There is no "Convert these unicode characters to html entities" tool. But it shouldn't be too hard to save some regex or a python S&R function to do what you want.

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