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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: printf("%8d")
Message-ID: <303@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 27 Oct 90 00:03:57 GMT
References: <4311@altos86.Altos.COM>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <4311@altos86.Altos.COM> clp@altos86.Altos.COM (Chuck L. Peterson) writes:
>Only after getting the %8d thing working did I realize that
>this is completely not what I want since my goal is
>to right-justify numbers.  It turns out that %8d will only
>work with a constant-width font.

Well, since I took the time to answer your original question, I feel
entitled to point out that you probably should have asked the higher-order
question about how to right-justify text (or at least included some notion
of what it was you were trying to accomplish), rather than just asking how
to emulate the printf("%8d").  :-)

Glad you got it working, though.  I didn't much like the %8d stuff anyway,
and I'm glad you didn't need it.

/Glenn

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