On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:44:17PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

>i've been playing with H::T to produce formatted plain text reports in an 
>Xwindows based application. Seems to be much more flexible than using perl 
>Formats. So i dont go reinventing the wheel can anyone point me to some tips 
>and tricks to achieve things like centering, right or left justification of 
>fields, line and form feeds etc ?

Line and form feeds will be as they literally appear in the code - make
sure you're careful about where you put them relative to <tmpl_if>s.

Canonical centreing is done with

' ' x (($field_width - length($text))/2) . $text

i.e. in the script, not in the template.

Roger


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