Suggestion: pilcrow vs pipe to indicate a new line when displaying notes on the right of a task name in the tree view

[Anatoly Ukhvanov]

Hi, .dan.g. !

I also would like to suggest you to change the character you use to indicate a new line when displaying the notes on the right of a task name in the tree view from the vertical bar (pipe, |) character to the paragraph sign (pilcrow, ¶).

Pilcrow is the correct character to use in such circumstances. Its meaning is to indicate a new line or paragraph. It is used for such purpose in text processors, such as MS Word or LibreOffice Writer, when enabling display of non-printed characters. It is a commonly used practice, why should TDL avoid it?

And also, pipe is on the standard keyboard, users can freely use it, and they may confuse the real pipe char with TDL's substitution of new line. While pilcrow is absent on a keyboard, it is much less used and there are more chances that there won't be any conflict or collision with it.

What do you think?

[.dan.g.]

Hi Anton

I experimented with the Pilcrow character but it looked awful from my perspective (too distracting mainly) so I'm comfortable just not displaying any character to denote new lines.

[Anatoly Ukhvanov]

Hi .dan.g.!

(It's Anatoly)

Here's some other considerations.

just not displaying any character

Do you mean sipmle spaces, or literally no char at all? (Because «not any char» looks unsuitable IMO: compare "First lineSecond line" vs "First line Second line" — the words on edges of line merge into a single one)

By the way, there's another character to denote new lines: carriage return arrow (↵) — it's even printed on most keyboard I've seen, on the Enter key. Maybe, you like it more? It's used in MS Word, LibreOffice Writer. The look-alike (but not same) chars are used in Notepad++, IntelliJ IDEA (it's an IDE).

21B5 ↵ DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH CORNER LEFTWARDS
  • may indicate a carriage return or new line
  → 23CE ⏎ return symbol
http://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_2190.html#21B5

(I've never seen the ⏎ return symbol being used anywhere for this purpose.)

And also, chars to denoting new lines are often displayed in other color, e. g. grey (IDEA), blue (LibreOffice), orange (Notepad++) — like this:

First line¶Second line¶Other line¶Third line↵Fourth line↵Another line↵

I think, grey pilcrow would be the best choice (because it's widely used exactly for this purpose elsewhere), but also, even the «arrow ↵» char of any colour, including black, or even a simple space, IMO looks better than pipe. (Though the space doesn't allow to distinguish between spaces and new lines — which is pity.)

And what do you think of that?

суббота, 13 мая 2017 г., 10:44:26 UTC+3 пользователь .dan.g. написал:

[.dan.g.]

I'm just going to substitute a space.

[.dan.g.]

Fixed in 7.2.DP4.