[Haskell-cafe] Side-by-side pretty printing

[Michael Lazarev]

Hi all,

When looking into Text.PrettyPrint, I stumbled upon <> (beside) combinator.
Is it true that multi-line documents can't be printed one beside other?

E.g. this

  let doc1 = vcat $ map text ["This", "is", "a", "document"]
  in doc1 <> doc1

prints this:

This
is
a
documentThis
        is
        a
        document

As well as if I would write `doc1 <> nest 50 doc1`.

What I was expecting, was

This    This
is      is
a       a
documentdocument

Do I get it right that Text.PrettyPrint was not intended for such things?