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Bug 333629

Summary:	[Formatter] support column layout
Product:	[Modeling] TMF	Reporter:	Kai Kreuzer <kkreuzer>
Component:	Xtext Backlog	Assignee:	Project Inbox <tmf.xtext-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	Andreas.Muelder, kkreuzer, moritz.eysholdt
Version:	1.0.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Kai Kreuzer

2011-01-06 03:46:56 EST

This is a feature request for something that currently cannot be done with Xtext:

It would be nice if there were a way to define a padding of values as this would allow a column-based alignment of tabular texts, e.g.

Class     Attribute      Value
One       first          "a"
One       second         123
Five      a              98765

Currently, you can only have a fixed number of spaces between values, which prevents this kind of layout.

Optionally, there could be even some auto-padding, i.e. the formatter does not define the size of the padded value, but can automatically determine it from the longest value of some list - but I guess that'll be much more complicated to realize...

Comment 1 Moritz Eysholdt

2016-07-21 05:01:11 EDT

This is possible with the new formatter.