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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Several %(expression) in org-agenda-prefix-format
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laurent.jucquois@posteo.de writes:

> Hi Christophe,
>
> Thanks for the pointer!
>
> I had already tried this solution but I wasn't entirely satisfied
> because of alignment reasons.
>
> Not all my properties have the same length, so my agenda now looks
> like this:
>
> DUPOND 12/RG/569 (10) : My task
> DURAND 16/1689/A (05; 10-12; 14) : My task
>
> So it's better than not knowing to which case my todos relate but it
> isn't ideal for readability.
>
> Do you know if, like org-agenda-prefix-format, I could align the
> result of concat or define the number of character the first string
> can occupy?
>

Can't you use something like:

   (format "%-40s" (concat ...))

?

--
Nick