Question

A lot of text is to be appended to a StringBuffer object. Later this text will be displayed on the page.

stringBuffer.append("A lot of text part 1");
stringBuffer.append("A lot of text part 2");
...

The text contains paragraph titles. Is it possible to format these titles before/after appending? Something like

stringBuffer.append("Title of text 1");
//in this line do some formatting to the above text, like make title bold, larger font, etc.
stringBuffer.append("A lot of text part 1");

I know that it can be done if I set TextViews in XML layout, but it’s just too many titles and this way would take so much time.

Answer 1

Not really sure what you want. You can use String.format to insert the text and surround it with w/e that is you want, like this:

    String title = "foo";
    String body = "bar baz";
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.append(String.format("<h1>%s</h1><p>%s</p>", title, body));

I’m still not sure if that’s what you’re asking.
I think you’ll find StringBuilder.insert() useful.
Do you know what part of the text is the title and what part is the body ?

Also consider StringBuilder instead of StringBuffer. Read the javadoc documentation about it.