Drawing trees within notes or using Salt

Question

I have been trying to draw a directory tree with a comment column against each line, with the comments vertically aligned. Hopefully a couple of examples will explain:

First using notes:

    @startuml

    skinparam noteFontName Courier

    note as N1

      top_level                                 <color:red>Top level comment

      |_ second_level                           <color:blue>Second level comment

        |_ even_lower_third_level               <color:green>Third level comment

    end note

    @enduml

 

And also using Salt:

 

    @startuml

    salt

    {

      {T

         +      top_level                       <color:red>Top level comment

         ++       second_level                  <color:blue>Second level comment

         +++        even_lower_third_level      <color:green>Third level comment

      }

    }

    @enduml

 

As you can see, the comment columns are not aligned. I have tried changing to a monospaced font but that doesn't help (in the note case at least - it doesn't seem to be possible to change the font used by Salt)

 

Is there any way to achieve this?

 

Thanks

--Alan Gillespie

 

 

Comments

EDIT: Just found the tree table feature in Salt which seems to do what I need.

Answer 1

Use pipes
 

    @startuml

    salt

    {

      {T

         +      top_level                      | <color:red>Top level comment

         ++       second_level                 | <color:blue>Second level comment

         +++        even_lower_third_level     | <color:green>Third level comment

      }

    }

    @enduml