On 2016-12-11 13:46, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> CP> Also: how does format-spec deal with formatting sequences, like %-3.2d?
>>
>> It doesn't.
> 
> format-spec does support formatting sequences like that.  :-)
> 
> (format-spec "bar %-10a" '((?a . "foo")))
> => "bar foo       "

How do you tell which format code to use? (format-spec "bar %-.2f" '((?f . 53))) doesn't work, for obvious reasons :)