Questions tagged [text-formatting]
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How to output numbers with leading zeros in JavaScript?
Is there a way to prepend leading zeros to numbers so that it results in a string of fixed length? For example, 5 becomes "05" if I specify 2 places.
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How to write URLs in Latex?
How do you write a URL in Latex?
The subscripts and everything else make the font look very strange when it compiles.
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Telegram markdown syntax: Bold *and* italic? (September 2018)
By looking at Telegram’s “Markdown Syntax” Wiki page, it should be relatively easy to create text that is bold and italic.
There, it says that
*this is in italic* and _so is this_
**this is in bold** and __so is this__
***this is bold and…
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Use a custom thousand separator in C#
I'm trying not to use the ',' char as a thousand separator when displaying a string, but to use a space instead. I guess I need to define a custom culture, but I don't seem to get it right. Any pointers?
eg: display 1000000 as 1 000 000 instead of…
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Printing with "\t" (tabs) does not result in aligned columns
I have a very weird problem. After writing this:
for (File f : currentFile.listFiles()) {
if (f.isDirectory()){
System.out.println(f.getName()+"\t"+"Dir\t"+Command.getpremission(f)+"\t"+f.getTotalSpace());
}
else{
…
Unknown user
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Why does Vim add spaces when joining lines?
I want to unwrap text in Vim. When I join lines I get an additional space between sentences.
Why is that?
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What is the WPF XAML Data Binding equivalent of String.Format?
Or, to be more clear, how can I format a block of text (in my case, to be included within a tooltip) such that some portions of the text come from bound values.
In plain C# I would use:
_toolTip.Text = string.Format("{1:#0}% up, {2:#0}% down",
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how to use "tab space" while writing in text file
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyy_HHmmSS");
String strCurrDate = formatter.format(new java.util.Date());
String strfileNm = "Cust_Advice_" + strCurrDate + ".txt";
String strFileGenLoc = strFileLocation + "/" +…
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How to know the preferred display width (in columns) of Unicode characters?
In different encodings of Unicode, for example UTF-16le or UTF-8, a character may occupy 2 or 3 bytes. Many Unicode applications doesn't take care of display width of Unicode chars just like they are all Latin letters. For example, in 80-column…
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Truncate part of text in UILabel
My requirement is that I need to display text in label in such a way that if the length of text is too big to accommodate in one line, i need to truncate it at the end in such a way that only the last few characters(usually a number b/w 1-1000 so…
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Add rich text format functionality to django TextField
I have a django model which contains a description field:
class Product(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length="125")
description = models.TextField()
class ProductForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Product
def…
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Apply multiple font colors to the text in a single Google Sheets cell
I am trying to format a cell to have multiple font colors using a function in Google Apps Script. I am unable to find any documentation on it. Also, using getFontColor() doesn't return anything useful.
Is there any way to programmatically reproduce…
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How do I get HTML Tidy to not put newline before closing tags?
HTML Tidy has this infuriating habit of putting a newline before the closing tag. For example:
Some text
becomesSome text
How do I tell Tidy to keep the closing tag on the same line as the end of the content? Btw, I am running Tidy…
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Nice bit of code to format an xml string
Anyone got a ready made function that will take an XML string and return a correctly indented string?
eg
A
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Set color of text in a Textbox/Label to Red and make it bold
I want a text color to be red in color on certain condition.
Here is how i want to get it done.
string minusvalue = TextBox1.Text.ToString();
if (Convert.ToDouble(minusvalue) < 0)
{
// set color of text in TextBox1 to red color and bold.
}
Is…
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