Leos Literak wrote: > > shall I check them or uncheck them? I understand trim spaces > as create one big file with no intendation. Am I right?
No. See below. > And also I dont think if Open settings shall affect Save > behaviour. In my eyes these are separate and even if opened > file didn't have any intendation True. > and you set intendation on > save, then save shall put intendation in saved file. > What do you think? True. Here is the detailed explanation: --------------------------------- In the case of documents without a DTD, when the "When no DTD is being used, guess what spaces are not useful and trim them" toggle is checked, Open behavior is based on the following _heuristic_ (heuristic 1): 1) When an element contains text other that white spaces, white spaces are not stripped. 2) When an element contains other elements and white spaces, white spaces are stripped. (Off course, the xml:space attribute supersedes the heuristic) In the case of documents without a DTD, Indent (aka Save) behavior is based on the following heuristic (heuristic 2): 1) An element containing text, even if white space, is formatted like a paragraph: not indented. 2) An element only containing other elements is formatted like a structure: indented. Of course, heuristic 2 does not work very well :-) when heuristic 1 has not been applied first, which is exactly the problem you have described. Here are the settings I always use and that I recommend in your case: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Open Tab: check "When no DTD is being used, guess what spaces are not useful and trim them" Save Tab: check "Indent when no DTD" Save Tab: set indentation to 2 (or any value > 0)
