Nested formatting inside of List spacers?

[karljj1]

Hey,

I had one of our users ask if it was possible to apply formatting to the spacer in a List.
E.G
"{Names:l:{}|, | {Not:nor|or} }"

Names is a list of string
Not is a boolean

It's giving a result like "John, Mary Amy", expecting "John, Mary nor Amy"

It does seem that the spacer is just treated as literal text, do you think its worth supporting formatting here?

[axunonb]

Hi Karl, good to hear from you!
Yes, spacers are actually parsed as Format (of course), and with your example, the last item has Format.HasNested == true.
But we only use Format.GetLiteralText() to process the spacers as strings. That's why the Placeholder is just discarded.
So I would say, instead of spacerFormattingInfo.Write(spacer) we had to implement spacerFormattingInfo.FormatAsChild(...).
Wouldn't this be a nice PR? :)

[karljj1]

Ah interesting. Maybe ill make that PR ;)

[axunonb]

Converted to issue #279