Posted by marc0der on Sep 08, 2019; 9:04am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Code-block-justification-tp7141.html

Hi all!

I'm currently writing something that has a lot of code blocks where I reference sections of code using tags.
My problem occurs when I reference blocks of indented code. An example would be something like:

object MyObject {
    class MyClass {
        //tag::init[]
        fun myMethod(x: Int): Int = ....
        //end::init[]
    }
}

This would result the tagged code being indented by 8 characters:

        fun myMethod(x: Int): Int = ....

When defining code blocks, each with a different indentation level it feels odd in the final output.
I've looked in the documentation but can't find anything that addresses this specific issue. It would
be great if I could define a tag as follows:

        //tag::init[index=-8]
        fun myMethod(x: Int): Int = ....
        //end::init[]

that would in turn result in everything shifted left by 8 character columns:

fun myMethod(x: Int): Int = ....

Am I just being stupid and overlooking something? is there something I should be doing to achieve this effect?
Thanks for such a fantastic project and hope I can get this working!
Cheers,
Marco.