Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:33:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: mkdoc patch, take 2
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jeff Williams wrote:

> -: > 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%?

I don't see how.  To know how many percents the first column will take, 
you again need the line length (because the longest item that goes into 
the first column is measured in characters, not percents).  So it's the 
same problem, as far as I could tell.