White Space (font-sensitive)

When checked, the following Cleanup options may be set to exclude text in a specified font:

Convert Tabs to Spaces
Remove Multiple Spaces
Remove Start and End Paragraph Spaces
Remove Blank Paragraphs

These Cleanup features can be particularly useful on documents that you wish to run white space-related Cleanup but exclude certain paragraphs that should retain their whitespace (e.g. programming code, poetry, etc.).

When checked, Exclude Text in Font allows you to choose from the dropdown which font to exclude during this portion of Cleanup.

To exclude or not to exclude:

Excluding paragraphs from white space–related Cleanup features is optional. You can still run all Cleanup features on all paragraphs in your documents if you prefer, by leaving the Exclude Text in Font checkbox unchecked.

Exclude Text in Font only excludes paragraphs of text that are in the font selected from the drop-down options.

Remove Start and End Paragraph Spaces removes leading and trailing space in paragraphs as well as nonbreaking spaces and soft returns.

This step and Remove Multiple Spaces, when checked, are applied after Convert Tabs to Spaces, so that all extra white space is removed from the document.

How to use

Before running Cleanup, check your document for paragraphs or sections that eXtyles should skip during white-space Cleanup (e.g. verse/poetry, etc.) and make sure those paragraphs are in a font that is not used elsewhere in the document (and apply a font if necessary).

Be sure all paragraphs in question are in a single excluded font: paragraphs in a mix of fonts will not be excluded from these Cleanup operations.

Check the box for Exclude Text in Font and choose your desired font from the dropdown menu. Run Cleanup as normal.

Screenshot of the Cleanup dialog zoomed in to the 'White Space (font-sensitive)' section with 'Exclude Text in Font' checked and the dropdown menu has the font Courier New selected

Monospace fonts

Authors sometimes apply a code (monospace) font instead of using a monospaced paragraph style. eXtyles protects these paragraphs from white space Cleanup as well.

During Activation, eXtyles checks the document for paragraphs that are in a monospace font but not a monospace-font paragraph style. eXtyles then applies a monospace-font paragraph style (HTML Preformatted) to exclude these paragraphs from the subset of white space operations during Cleanup. The HTML Preformatted paragraphs can then be styled as usual during the Style Paragraphs stage.

After Activation, eXtyles automatically protects paragraphs that are in a constant-width font or that are correctly tagged with a paragraph style that is set in a constant-width font.

When this feature is turned on, The Cleanup features Normalize Document and Auto-Style will also automatically skip paragraphs in the specified font.

White Space Cleanup

White Space (whole document)

White Space (font-sensitive)

How to use