Its done, with hard spaces basically, $chr(160).
//var %c1 = This is an, %c2 = example of ident | //echo $+(%c1,$str($chr(160),$calc(50 - $len(%i))),%c2)
Creates an IDENT of, 50 between the 2 parts of the line, to create the COLUMN effect, you would need to look at the widest (longest), parts and calculate with them accordingly.
To further enhance the confusion.
//echo [color:red]ABCDE $+ $str($chr(160),50) $+ B
//echo ABC $+ $str($chr(160),$calc(50 + ($len(ABCDE) - $len(ABC)))) $+ B
//echo ABCDEF $+ $str($chr(160),$calc(50 + ($len(ABCDE) - $len(ABCDEF)))) $+ B
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Will result in all 3 lines being aligned correctly, however notice the starting 'words' are of different length, the FIRST one is our starting length, the 2nd one is a shorter one showing you how to calculate that and the last is a larger length.
Eamonn.