Re: how to print data with a table-like layout in txt file

Friday, September 19, 2008, 5:19:15 AM, HawkCoretech wrote:

> Hi,
> thanks for your reply.
> So, is Freemarker designed primary for Web template engine or for general
> purpose?
> Because I have a requirement to generate arbitrary text layout like table,
> comma-separation file.
> Is it suitable to use Freemarker to do this?
> I have surveyed most of template engine, they seems to design for web
> template engine, do someone know any general purpose template engine?

FreeMarker *is* a general purpose template engine and that's exactly
the problem; for generating nicely formatted plain text ideally you
use a template engine that's specialized on plain text (but I don't
know about a such template engine). Now maybe you can still done what
you *actually* need with a few FreeMarker macros, with some luck even
elegantly. And surely you can generate comma-separated-text file with
FreeMarker, and source code that compiles fine, things like that,
those used to be easy. Nicely formatted plain text can be tricky
because that's already a kind of rendering task, a thing that involves
page-setting things (note that markup languages like HTML don't; it's
the browser that renders the HTLM).

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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