> > * there is support for width/precision positional parameters (%NNN$s was
> > supported in 1.0 too), like
> >
> > printf ("%2$*1$s", "fubar", -10);
>
> This, of course, being an erroneous example, taking "fubar" as the width
> and -10 as the string to be formatted.
Yes, sorry.
Paolo