Problem 1423

Summary:	NIST materials dump no longer produced column-aligned output
Product:	Geant4	Reporter:	Michael Kelsey <kelsey>
Component:	materials	Assignee:	Marc.Verderi
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	Vladimir.Ivantchenko
Priority:	P5
Version:	9.6
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Michael Kelsey 2013-01-05 21:40:27 CET

The headings for each section of the NIST materials output are aligned on particular character columns, for example

  =======================================================
  ###   Simple Materials from the NIST Data Base   ###
  =======================================================
   Z  Name  ChFormula        density(g/cm^3)  I(eV)       
  =======================================================

However, since at least the 9.4 release the output data is simply streamed, without any alignment:

[...]
  8  G4_O  0.00133151     95
  9  G4_F  0.00158029     115
  10  G4_Ne  0.000838505     137
  11  G4_Na  0.971     149
  12  G4_Mg  1.74     156
[...]

This makes reading the output more difficult, and very awkward to transfer into documentation without significant manual editing.

Comment 1 Vladimir.Ivantchenko 2013-07-15 11:58:47 CEST

Thanks for pointing to the problem. The fix is integrated to the development release. Marc, please, close the report.

Vladimir