On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 10:59 AM Raymond Toy <[email protected]> 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.
>
> But if I replace the prototype with @columnfractions, everything works
> nicely in info, pdf, and html.
>
>
>
One other thing. Each item from headitem is left-justified for both info
and pdf. But it's centered in html. For consistency, should they all be
left-justified? (Or maybe allow a way to control that? It looks funny in
html if the columns are wide, but the actual entries are narrow.)
--
Ray
