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...