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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:39:28 -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: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
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-: > 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).

Since `we' (DJ et al.) create these docs, don't `we' get to assume
a certain line size?

If the first column is known not to exceed a certain number of
characters (as seems likely here), then `@columnfractions 0.2 0.8' or
so should work---just make the first column percentage large enough to
hold your largest first-column entry.  I do this when making a Texinfo
@multitable of `version number' and `version description'.
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    ANSI/ISO C   not C89 (see note 1); not C99
    POSIX        1003.2-1992 (see note 2)
    Unix         Unix98 (partial) (see note 3)