RE: [xep-support] Fixed column width without knowing the width of a column

From: Jeff Beal (jeff.beal@ansys.com)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 10:39:26 PDT

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    This requires the automatic table layout algorithm, and XEP does not yet
    support that. The best you can do is use a fixed width for the first two
    columns and use proportional-column-width(1) for the third column, but the
    fixed width has to be pre-determined at author time.

    Jeff

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Louis Meigret [mailto:meigret@technologist.com]
    > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:51 PM
    > To: xep-support@renderx.com
    > Subject: [xep-support] Fixed column width without knowing the
    > width of a
    > column
    >
    >
    > Hello,
    >
    >
    > I was wondering whether it was possible to control the size
    > allocated to a column without specifying either a fixed
    > column size or a relative total size but rather how much
    > should be allocated of the table width once the minimum size
    > of a column has been calculated.
    >
    > For instance, I would like two columns to be as wide as their
    > minimum size (the longest word or image for instance in the
    > column) and the third column of the table to stretch to take
    > all the remaining space.
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > LM
    >
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