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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:20:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject: Re: mkdoc patch, take 2
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Cc: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk
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-: > 1. When producing @multitable in texinfo, is there an easy way to make a
-: > column consume the rest of the table? The problem here is that we have a
-: > 2-column table. The left-hand column's width can be calculated easily, but
-: > the right column should use the remaining space. I have a hack based on an
-: > assumption of 80-columns width.

Can you not use `@columnfractions' to declare the first column
to be (for example) 10% and the second column to be 90%?

@multitable @columnfractions .1 .9