An equivalent to microsot word "Show/Hide"

[Daniel]

On 08/07/2022 16:31, Herbert Voss wrote:
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> Am 08.07.22 um 11:56 schrieb Daniel:
>> On 08/07/2022 08:38, kzstatis at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Van: lyx-users <lyx-users-bounces at lists.lyx.org> Namens tush via 
>>>> lyx-users
>>>> …
>>>> MS Word has a useful tool called "Show/Hide". According to the 
>>>> documentation (link at the bottom),
>>>> "The Show/Hide ¶ button turns hidden characters like spaces, 
>>>> paragraph markers, or tab marks on and off."
>>>> I am looking for a similar tool or feature in LyX. Can any one point 
>>>> it out for me? I couldn't find it.
>>>
>>> I think LyX only has a toggle for end of paragraph markers: Tools / 
>>> Preferences / Look & Feel / Display / Mark end of paragraphs
> 
> It makes no sense to mark the spaces because it has a different meaning for
> MS Word and TeX, e.g. 7 spaces is the same as 1 space for TeX

But LyX is not a TeX source editor. And it can happen in LyX that a 
*single* space is hard to see. It is explained in the enhancement 
request I referenced below. (Furthermore, there are environments, even 
in plain TeX that accept more than one space such as verbatim.)

>> There is also an enhancement request for spaces:
>>
>> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11435
>>
>> But it hasn't gotten much love yet. You could chime in there with your 
>> ideas.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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