Allow configurable printing

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Let the user set visual preferences such as:
  * max width of tag name displayed
  * whether the VR is shown or not
  * whether UI's are shown as descriptive names (if available) or dotted
numbers
  * whether file position is shown at start of line
  * max depth of nested structures to show

Original issue reported on code.google.com by darcymason@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2008 at 4:24

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Add to the list:
  * Person name formatting style
  * date/time formatting?

Original comment by darcymason@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2008 at 4:15

[GoogleCodeExporter]

dataset.formatted_lines() function provides functionality for this issue, but 
needs 
documentation and testing.

Original comment by darcymason@gmail.com on 17 May 2009 at 6:02

• Changed state: Started

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Merging issue 29 into this one, as it involves output formatting:
"Attribute class str() display usually truncates large items. But if
multi-valued (a list) then len(value) can be small (the number of items in
the list) but the printed list very large. Saw this in Senographe file with
LUTs.
 Need to check the overall length of the output in case of lists."

Another thought: perhaps contexts (python >2.5 I think) might be a useful way 
to configure printing, as is done in the Decimal module (but hopefully not so 
unwieldy as that).

Original comment by darcymason@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2012 at 4:08

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Issue 29 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by darcymason@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2012 at 4:09