On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 4:59 AM Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 09:39:33AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 10:12 AM Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > > 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? > > I don't know how to do that. An additional constraint is that, at least > for the default output, it should look ok with no CSS, so if an header > pops up when there is no CSS this is not good. > I did some googling and some experiments but nothing really looked right to me. I didn't try super-hard. So maybe the best thing is for the manual to say that prototypes have no effect in HTML. I would be satisfied with that answer. Then I wouldn't have tried to use it and just used the columnfractions method to space out the table columns. > > > 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.... > > If somebody knows the HTML that allows to do it I could add it. > > It would also be nice to implement correctly in LaTeX output. > Currently, for the LaTeX output, the prototype is converted to plain > text and used to compute the fractions, which is bad (maybe doing > nothing would be better actually), but if it is doable in Texinfo TeX > (and it seems to be done with a little bit of code) it should be doable > in LaTeX too. > I haven't tried the LaTeX output; I'm not really interested (currently) in having makeinfo produce a LaTeX file. > > -- > Pat > -- Ray
