Showing spaces and other special characters

memoQ does not have a built-in switch to show or hide spaces and other non-printing characters. You can display them by using a specially adapted font. The font in question, Veronika, was developed by Endre Both, and with the author's kind permission it is also available from the Kilgray site at the links:

http://kilgray.com/memoq/VeronikaSans.ttf
http://kilgray.com/memoq/VeronikaSerif.ttf

Note: Both Veronika fonts display rectangles instead of extended CEE (Central & Eastern Europe) characters.

Denis Hay created similar fonts based on Calibri; these are also available from the Kilgray site with his kind permission:

http://kilgray.com/memoq/CALIBRI_MQ.ttf
http://kilgray.com/memoq/CALIBRI_MQ2.ttf
http://kilgray.com/memoq/CALIBRI_MQ3.ttf

A description of the fonts by Denis:

Calibri MQ just adds a smallish triangle-shaped glyph to display unbreakable spaces.

Calibri MQ2 also adds to that a tiny-weeny dot to display ordinary spaces. This dot does not hinder reading, unlike the usual modified fonts, but it allows easy spotting of double spaces when looking at it closely. That's the one I prefer.

Calibri MQ3 is quite similar to MQ2, but with a larger dot glyph for ordinary spaces, for those who may prefer that.

To show spaces while translating in memoQ, follow these steps:

Download the fonts from the links above
Go to Control Panel / Fonts and choose Install New Font... from the File menu
Browse to the folder where you saved the fonts, select them from the list at the top, and click OK
In memoQ, open Tools / Options and go to the Appearance, locations category. In the Font family drop-down list, select any of the newly installed fonts

memoQ will now show small dots for every space character in the translation grid.