Text Formatting

This chapter covers building strings, formatting values with patterns, and choosing format specifications. Start with Text Formatting Overview to choose the right approach for a piece of text. For complete documents, continue with Text Rendering. For source and filter substitution, see Text Placeholders.

• Text Formatting Overview
  • Building Strings Efficiently
  • Formatting Structured Text
  • Describing Values with Named Format Specifications
  • Maintaining Compact Compatibility Specifications
• Building Strings
  • Appending to StringEditor with Reserved Capacity
  • Concatenating Known String Fragments
  • Collecting and Joining Dynamic String Fragments
  • Building UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 with AnyStringBuilder
  • Comparing String Construction and Allocation Strategies
  • Structured Output with StringFormat
• Formatting Text with StringFormat
  • Creating and Reusing a StringFormat Pattern
  • Empty Placeholders and Automatic Argument Numbering
  • Positional Placeholders and Argument Reuse
  • Supported Value Types and Custom FormatAs Representations
• Named Format Specifications
  • Describing a Value’s Representation
  • Laying Out and Escaping Text
  • Formatting Integer Identifiers and Counts
  • Choosing Floating-Point Notation and Precision
  • Choosing Boolean Words and Capitalization
  • Keeping Byte Diagnostics Bounded
  • Format Errors and Reusable Patterns
• Compatibility Format Specifications
  • Compact Format Grammar
  • Integer Presentation Letters and Padding
  • Text Precision and Alignment
  • Floating-Point Notation and Precision
  • Compact Text Escaping Extensions
  • Unsupported Compatibility Format Features