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vogu66

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Registered: 2018-08-28

Posts: 4

Mousepad "justify" option

Hello,

I'm just wondering if it is possible to make mousepad show the text as justified ?  I'm using it as my LaTex editor and I really prefer having a tidy text rather than lines of different lengths.

Thanks in advance

mint4all

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Registered: 2018-08-21

Posts: 265

Re: Mousepad "justify" option

Greetings!

Being just another member here, i can't speak for xfce's developers. What i do know a bit about is using various text editors (mostly the MS-Office variety over the past 15 years or so; prior to that, all sorts of mark-up editors).

"Mousepad" and its relatives (gedit, xedit, xed, notepad++, atom etc.) do a good (if not excellent) job of syntax highlighting -- a feature i thing you like a lot -- but none of them are designed to do what you're asking: to "justify" (meaning: to insert, based on a formula, small amounts of blank spaces between characters, punctuation, words & sentences) the text you enter(ed), or the block of lines/paragraphs formed.

Instead, have you looked into trying one of the free, open-source LaTex-editors available to you? Some are mentioned @ https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-latex-ed … nux-nerds/ and @ https://itsfoss.com/latex-editors-linux/ ? As i looked them over, i noticed that a good number of them even have a 2-pane layout that does just what you're asking for, to give you a WYSIWIG-view of what your marked-up text looks like to the reader ... Isn't that what you're really after?

Just a thought ... Cheers, M4A

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vogu66

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Registered: 2018-08-28

Posts: 4

Re: Mousepad "justify" option

Thanks for the reply !
To be honest, I didn't really want to download yet another program on this computer, but, since the feature doesn't exist (as opposed to I couldn't find it), I guess downloading something is unavoidable. What I would like is not especially the WYSIWYG-view but just the text editor that would make the text fit my window, whatever its size, so it doesn't look so messy and I know where I actually typed enter and where the line was just wrapped - without modifying the text document itself. I still think it would be a great feature, if not for code at least for .txt and .tex documents.

Thanks again, I'll go through the editors in the links you proposed and check them out.

Cheers

alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

Posts: 832

Re: Mousepad "justify" option

What I would like is not especially the WYSIWYG-view but just the text editor that would make the text fit my window, whatever its size, so it doesn't look so messy and I know where I actually typed enter and where the line was just wrapped - without modifying the text document itself.

You can make Mousepad show the end of line in Preferences > View > Show > Show end of lines (wording may be different, as I'm translating from the spanish version).

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/RoDcSdX