[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 68071] Editing: give non-printing characters a color different from the text

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68071

--- Comment #6 from Cosmin Saveanu <c.saveanu at laposte.net> ---
It would be really great to add lower contrast or different color to the non
printing characters. 

I took a look at the way MS Word 2011 behaves on a Mac. Funny thing is that the
spaces, for example, are shown by very small dots that are scaled only
partially if one zooms in the view of the document. 

Carriage return characters are blue and show the same strange behaviour when
zooming - not growing too much when zooming in and being still visible when
zooming out. It makes sense, since even if a page is zoomed out, at 30% for
example, when the text is not readable anymore, the paragraph marks keep a
visible size.

My impression is that a decision must be taken about both colors, sizes and
zooming behavior for non-printing characters. Even if an initial solution would
be hardcoded and without any user option, it would still be better than the
present situation. Many thanks in advance to the kind soul who has the ability
to do such changes in the LibreOffice code and wants to work on this issue.

Links to screenshots illustrating Word behavior:
http://ubuntuone.com/5tDGP6L1Q6n1RAwE6AFX5x
http://ubuntuone.com/1oGa4BizBAjXPjbMaOqrWj

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