Re: [Webmacro-devel] Whitespace :(

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

Marc,

I am going to send you a template off line to generate a completely 
formatted java class with all the indents.

It does a lot of what you are trying to do.

-Lane

Keats wrote:

>Marc,
>
>It's really not as bad as you're making it out to be.  The only known bugs with whitespace handling are the implicit #begin and #end problems.  You can avoid this altogether by using curly braces when you need precise control of whitespace.
>
>The rules are a bit complex, but they were hashed out exhaustively and there is some logic behind them.
>
>If you have a specific case that's giving you trouble I'd be glad to take a look.
>
>Keats
>
>-------Original Message-------
>From: Marc Palmer <ma...@an...>
>Sent: 08/01/03 07:21 AM
>To: web...@li...
>Subject: [Webmacro-devel] Whitespace :(
>
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>
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>Guys,
>
>I know this is such a seriously unpopular subject... but WM is really very 
>
>horrible to use to produce nicely formatted text output. The whitespace 
>eating is just so hard to work with.
>
>WM's currently rules are generally fine for HTML due to the filtering of 
>consecutive whitespace inherent in HTML rendering, but for text output it 
>is really horrible.
>
>For example I am trying to get nice SQL statements generated from
>metadata, 
>without commas on their own line, with spaces after commas (if I can get 
>them on the same line), with spaces before and after optional NOT NULL but 
>
>without them being on their own line.
>
>It's just nasty, I'm not sure I can even achieve the formatting I want, 
>which is really worrying.
>
>I'm sure you are all well aware of this - but putting my "average joe 
>webmonkey" hat on here, I'd be smashing my screen to pieces with a hammer 
>by now at the -apparent-stupidity of WM's whitespace handling.
>
>
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