What do you all recommend for showing "space" characters?

[Alan Litchfield]

Hi,

The UTF-8 code for it is U+2423 and it is called "Open Box" (␣).

In LaTeX you can use the \textvisiblespace{} macro.

Regards
Alan

On 15/03/14 2:09 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote:
> Hi, everybody.
>
> In my specifications, I often need to “show” a space character … for a
> text format sample, for example.
>
> I usually use a fixed-width font (Consolas) for these format samples.
> This helps to make the space character obvious, but isn’t perfect.
>
> Elsewhere, I have also seen the use of an underscore-like character with
> little “upticks” at the end.
>
> What do you all do for this purpose? If you use a printing character to
> denote a space, what character do you use?
>
> Is there a character in a fixed-width font (ideally Consolas ... I went
> looking but did not find something convenient) that would be good?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Z
>
>
>
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