Re: st: display output in columns of a table

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

The solution is not really to do them in columns, but rather to indent 
the second (and subsequent) lines enough that it looks like you've got 
columns.

You want to do something like:

di "{p 0 3 0}B: {res}`blist'"

This will format the results as a paragraph with the first line indented 
zero, the second (and subsequent lines) indented 3, and the right-side 
indented zero.

See

. help smcl##paragraph_mode

for a discussion of the smcl {p} directive.

--Nick Winter

Tom Boonen wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I have a question on how to use SMCL to display output of my
> program in aligned columns of a table. My code reads:
>
> di as txt "{hline}"
> di "A: {res}`alist' "
> di "B: {res}`blist' "
> di "C: {res}`clist' "
> di as txt "{hline}"
>
> Here `arlist' , `blist' , and `clist' are numlists entered by the
> user. Since `colist' is too long to fit in a single line it overflows
> to the next line on the screen. Output looks like this:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> A: 3
> B: 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
> 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
> C: 4 5 6
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>
> Is there any way to display my output in columns of a table instead.
> In my case this would be a two column table, where A, B, and C would
> go in the first column and the respective numbers in the lists would
> go in the second column.
>
> The difference would be that the numbers in `blist' that overflow into
> the next line are not displayed below B but remain correctly aligned.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Tom
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