Hi Jan,

It seems that you have already set the \"Whitespaces in content: Always preserve\" option, but you are still not seeing the spaces in the translation panel. To make the whitespace characters visible in the translation panel, you can follow these steps:

On the Home ribbon, click the \"Show Whitespace Characters\" button. This will display the whitespace characters in the translation panel.

If you want to change this setting in the default project template, follow these steps:
a. Select File > Options or press Alt+F10, F, T to open the Options dialog box.
b. Select \"Editor\" in the left pane.
c. In the right-hand pane, select \"Show whitespace characters in the Side-by-side Editor area. By following these steps, you should be able to see the whitespace characters in the translation panel. If you still face issues, you can try copying the source to the target (Ctrl+Insert or SDLX F4) and then type over the non-tokenized text. This will help you maintain the spaces from the source in the target translation."

I hope this helps to solve your issue

Hi Jan,

It seems that you have already set the \"Whitespaces in content: Always preserve\" option, but you are still not seeing the spaces in the translation panel. To make the whitespace characters visible in the translation panel, you can follow these steps:

On the Home ribbon, click the \"Show Whitespace Characters\" button. This will display the whitespace characters in the translation panel.

If you want to change this setting in the default project template, follow these steps:
a. Select File > Options or press Alt+F10, F, T to open the Options dialog box.
b. Select \"Editor\" in the left pane.
c. In the right-hand pane, select \"Show whitespace characters in the Side-by-side Editor area. By following these steps, you should be able to see the whitespace characters in the translation panel. If you still face issues, you can try copying the source to the target (Ctrl+Insert or SDLX F4) and then type over the non-tokenized text. This will help you maintain the spaces from the source in the target translation."

I hope this helps to solve your issue

Hello John , 

thank you for your response.

On the images I attached you can see that I have the Show whitespace character function enabled. For example line:Last line VHF<dot>antenna. What I would like is to not cut the whitespace from the source and display it in the translation panel.
Thank you for your reply

 Jan Pospisil John B 

The reason these spaces won't display is because they are not needed.  They are at the start and the end of the sentence based on the way you may have configured your filetype settings.  If you had made these elements internal you'd see them.  If you cannot do that (you didn't provide a file sample so I don't know if this makes sense or not) then you can still see the spaces if you use the display filter to show "All Content" as this will show you what has been outside the translatable space because they are not needed.

You should also note that when you save the target file the spaces should be still there.

Paul Filkin 

thank you for your reply, unfortunately I can't show you the whole file. I am inserting only the given element here. I need the spaces not to be cut, because after generating the target file the words without spaces are merged.

<para>If the result of the analysis is unsatisfactory and the VHF
antenna is not serviceable, replace the VHF antenna, refer to <dmRef>
<dmRefIdent>
<dmCode assyCode="01" disassyCode="00" disassyCodeVariant="A" infoCode="520" infoCodeVariant="A" itemLocationCode="A" modelIdentCode="AV39NG" subSubSystemCode="0" subSystemCode="1" systemCode="23" systemDiffCode="B"/>
<issueInfo inWork="01" issueNumber="000"/>
</dmRefIdent>
<dmRefAddressItems>
<dmTitle>
<techName>VHF antenna</techName>
<infoName>Remove procedure</infoName>
</dmTitle>
<issueDate day="15" month="07" year="2020"/>
</dmRefAddressItems>
</dmRef> and <dmRef>
<dmRefIdent>
<dmCode assyCode="01" disassyCode="00" disassyCodeVariant="A" infoCode="720" infoCodeVariant="A" itemLocationCode="A" modelIdentCode="AV39NG" subSubSystemCode="0" subSystemCode="1" systemCode="23" systemDiffCode="B"/>
<issueInfo inWork="01" issueNumber="000"/>
</dmRefIdent>
<dmRefAddressItems>
<dmTitle>
<techName>VHF antenna</techName>
<infoName>Install procedure</infoName>
</dmTitle>
<issueDate day="15" month="07" year="2020"/>
</dmRefAddressItems>
</dmRef>.</para>

Jan Pospisil 

ok - in this case you just need to use this option in your filetype settings (before creating your project):

I tested this with your file and this worked fine.