Increasing spaces between words,ordering words in columns

Question

Is there possibility to easily increase spaces between words in QTextEdit? My only idea is to set space key event to insert more whitespaces, but i would better like some setting parameters solution?

Is there way to set words in columns in text edit. What I mean:

first word       wordabc      abcd
second word      worda        egdsa
third word       wordb        dafdd

With this I have no idea for now.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '12 at 20:18

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The QTextEdit can render html, so you could use table elements to achieve what you want.

#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include <QtGui/QTextEdit>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  QString html = "<html><body><table>";
  html += "<tr><td>first word</td><td>wordabc</td><td>abcd</td></tr>";
  html += "<tr><td>second word</td><td>worda</td><td>egdsa</td></tr>";
  html += "<tr><td>third word</td><td>wordb</td><td>dafdd</td></tr>";
  html += "</table></body></html>";

  QApplication app(argc, argv);
  QTextEdit textEdit;
  textEdit.setHtml(html);
  textEdit.show();
  return app.exec();
}

You could also apply styling to the table for example by adding the width attribute to the td tag to push columns apart from each other.

answered Jul 12 '12 at 20:18

acraig5075

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And how to save document then without html tags? Also each space key event must add tag, and ther will be hard to define columns amount. – krzych Jul 12 '12 at 21:27
I see your question is more complicated than what I thought. I'm thinking that `QTextEdit` is not appropriate and the input of the columnar data would be better handled in a `QTableWidget`. – acraig5075 Jul 13 '12 at 06:13
It's supposed to be some code editor. I want to set commands and parameters in columns to be better readable (some kind of autoformating) – krzych Jul 16 '12 at 08:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:13

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You can apply QTextCharFormat to your text and use QTextCharFormat::setFontWordSpacing ( qreal spacing )

answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:13

hank

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Increases spacing, but words are not in columns. This is key condition because functionality ought to improve readability of commands. – krzych Jul 16 '12 at 19:24
So your question is not about text decoration but about text markup. That's why you should use some markup language as advised above. – hank Jul 17 '12 at 09:50
But the parameters number varies for different commands and also what with saving files without tags? – krzych Jul 17 '12 at 11:57

Increasing spaces between words,ordering words in columns

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