README

Kirby CMS plugin to visually show hidden characters like spaces, soft hyphens, line breaks or paragraph endings in focused writer, textarea and text fields. The dimmed visual feedback is based on the appearance of Adobe’s solution in InDesign, providing a familiar experience for content editors.

Legend

The plugin visualizes the following characters using a custom icon font:

Name	Unicode	Character	Description
Space	U+0020		Centered dot
Thin Space	U+2009		Centered dot with chevron above
No-Break Space	U+00A0		Centered dot with inverted chevron below
Narrow No-Break Space	U+202F		Centered dot with inverted chevron above
Em Space	U+2003		Centered dot with em dash below
En Space	U+2002		Centered dot with en dash below
Three-Per-Em Space	U+2004		Centered dot with large dot above
Four-Per-Em Space	U+2005		Centered dot with large dot below
Six-Per-Em Space	U+2006		Centered dot with same-sized dot below
Hair Space	U+200A		Centered dot with two small dots above
Punctuation Space	U+2008		Centered dot with dot below and vertical stroke above
Figure Space	U+2007		Centered dot inside number sign
Medium Mathematical Space	U+205F		Centered dot with negation sign above
Zero-Width Space	U+200B		Dashed vertical stroke
Soft Hyphen	U+00AD		Vertical stroke indicating possible hyphenation
Line Break	U+000A		Negation sign representing hard line break
Paragraph End			Pilcrow sign representing the end of paragraph
Story End			Number sign representing the end of the entire text block

Requirements

• Kirby 4+

Installation

You can install the plugin via one of three methods:

1. Download

   Download and copy this repository to /site/plugins/kirby-hidden-characters.

2. Git Submodule

   git submodule add https://github.com/grommasdietz/kirby-hidden-characters.git site/plugins/kirby-hidden-characters

3. Composer

   composer require grommasdietz/kirby-hidden-characters

Configuration

This plugin works out of the box with no configuration required

Credits

The foundational logic for v2 of this plugin is adapted from the Kirby Soft Hyphens plugin by @hansipete. Thank you!

License

MIT