Hello David, You can start reading about supporting the geometric segmentation algorithm (i.e. indentation alphabets) for structuring text documents. Cheers.
Hernán 2009/2/17 David Finlayson <david.p.finlay...@gmail.com>: > There are also some interesting examples of string formatting in the > DateAndTime class used for printing hours minutes and seconds onto a > stream. That's where I picked up how Squeak does it (painful I might > add). > > printf (or Java's String.format) are nice. Python has some nice ideas > here too. Maybe some Smalltalk guru could shed some light on the one > true way to do this? > > David > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Sorensen <sor...@surfy.net> wrote: >> >> Thanks everybody for your replies. I'll look at SBE and Seaside 2.9 as well >> for further examples. >> >>> For left-justifying text, I'm a bit surprised that you'd want to do this. >>> Typically, you'd make the text left >>> or right justified in whatever GUI element that value ends up in, rather >>> than padding it with spaces. >> >> You're right. I'd like to do more than simply left-justify: >> >> "%6.2f" 34.56 "space-padded right justified" >> "%-6.2f" 34.56 "space-padded left justified" >> "%02d" 05 "zero padded left justified" >> >> etc >> >> Your examples though gave me a good place to start. >> >> Many thanks >> >> >> Sorensen wrote: >>> >>> Is there a printf/sprintf-like package for formatting text for Squeak? >>> >>> If not, how do Squeakers go about formatting currency amounts or left >>> justifying text within a field? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Number-formatting-printf-sprintf-for-Squeak--tp22045889p22049206.html >> Sent from the Squeak - Beginners mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beginners mailing list >> Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners >> > > > > -- > David Finlayson, Ph.D. > Operational Geologist > > U.S. Geological Survey > Pacific Science Center > 400 Natural Bridges Drive > Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA > > Office: 831-427-4757 > Lab: 831-427-4462 > Fax: 831-427-4748 > E-mail: dfinlay...@usgs.gov > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
