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Whitespace Characters

White characters refer to the spaces, non-breaking spaces, tabs and line breaks in your text. You can display whitespace characters or not. When they are displayed, whitespace characters appear as symbols in the document text.

The following list shows all available whitespace character symbols:

OptionDescription

Normal space character

°

Non-breaking space

Normal line break (Carriage Return (CF) + Line Feed (LF))

Line break consisting of a single Line Feed (LF) character (only appears in UNIX files).

Line break consisting of a single Carriage Return (CR) (only appears in files created on a Macintosh computer).

Tab character