[help] How can I align indents for condition statements in `algorithm` section?

[avatar-lavventura]

If possible, I want to align indents in condition statements like: \If, \Else, \For statements in between \begin{algorithmic} ... \end{algorithmic} section.

Wanted behaviour would be as following example:

\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\For{a for statement}                | for a for stament
    \If{some coding}                 |     if some coding    
        \State do something          |         do something  
    \EndIf                           |
\EndFor                              | 
\If{some coding}                     | if some coding
    \State do something              |      do something  
\EndIf 
\end{algorithmic}

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Following example latex code taken from: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/615852/127048. When I run latexindent.pl eblocbroker.tex it makes all the statements into same indent it aligns all if else statements in the same vertical line.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage[noend]{algpseudocode}
\begin{document}
\begin{algorithm}
\caption{Main D Algorithm}\label{alg:cap}
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\For{a for statement}
    \If{some coding}
      \State do something
    \ElsIf{another condition}
        \For{some condition}
            \If{another statement}
                \State do something
            \EndIf
        \EndFor
    \ElsIf{problem is here}
        \State whatever
    \EndIf
\EndFor
\end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}
\end{document}

After running latexindent.pl eblocbroker.tex it makes all the statements into same indent, converted into:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage[noend]{algpseudocode}
\begin{document}
\begin{algorithm}
\caption{Main D Algorithm}\label{alg:cap}
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
    \For{a for statement}
    \If{some coding}
    \State do something
    \ElsIf{another condition}
    \For{some condition}
    \If{another statement}
    \State do something
    \EndIf
    \EndFor
    \ElsIf{problem is here}
    \State whatever
    \EndIf
    \EndFor
\end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}
\end{document}

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Wanted output should be, its same as the given input file where I organize the indents beforehand:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage[noend]{algpseudocode}
\begin{document}
\begin{algorithm}
\caption{Main D Algorithm}\label{alg:cap}
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\For{a for statement}
    \If{some coding}  
      \State do something
    \ElsIf{another condition}
        \For{some condition}
            \If{another statement}
                \State do something
            \EndIf
        \EndFor
    \ElsIf{problem is here}
        \State whatever
    \EndIf
\EndFor
\end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}
\end{document}

[cmhughes]

Hello, Thanks for this. Could you look at https://github.com/cmhughes/latexindent.pl/issues/100 and see if it helps?

[cmhughes]

specialBeginEnd:
    If:
        begin: '\\If'
        middle: '\\ElsIf'
        end: '\\EndIf'
        lookForThis: 1
    specialBeforeCommand: 1

[avatar-lavventura]

@cmhughes Thanks works like magic! Is it possible to convert indents from TAB to (4 spaces)?

[cmhughes]

https://latexindentpl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sec-default-user-local.html#indentation-and-horizontal-space