On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 10:12 AM Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 10:59:43AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote:
> > Consider the following table (taken in part from maxima's user manual):
> >
> > @multitable {greater than or equal to 333} {notequal 333} {relational
> > function}
> > @headitem Operation @tab Symbol @tab Type
> > @item less than @tab @code{<} @tab relational
> infix
> > @item less than or equal to @tab @code{<=} @tab relational
> infix
> > @item equality (syntactic) @tab @code{=} @tab relational
> infix
> > @end multltable
> >
> > In the pdf and info file, the columns are spaced out nicely according to
> > the prototype. If the prototype is made wider, then the columns are
> > wider. But this doesn't happen in the html output. The width of each
> > column is pretty much fixed to the entry with the widest element.
>
> There is nothing specific in HTML with prototypes, so a plain HTML table
> is output, with the rendering based on the browser.
>
> > But if I replace the prototype with @columnfractions, everything works
> > nicely in info, pdf, and html.
> >
> > The prototype form is much easier to use; it's hard to know a priori what
> > column fractions to use to make the columns spaced nicely.
>
> I do not remember any discussion about that. But it is not clear to me
> what should be done. There is no obvious way to get the width of
> rendered text in HTML.
>
>
I am no HTML expert, but couldn't you create a hidden row containing the
prototype text for each column? Of course, the prototype is itself a bit
problematic with proportional fonts. However, it does look nice in the PDF
version.
Perhaps this is not worth the effort....
> --
> Pat
>
--
Ray
