Re: asciidoc tables

2016-07-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > e...@thyrsus.com said: > > Sadly, proportional is all you can do in the table model of XML-DocBook > > (which is what asciidoc uses as a back end). > > Can I specify the total width in characters? No. > Can we assume the width is appropriate for a man page? That might look ug

Re: asciidoc tables

2016-07-03 Thread Hal Murray
e...@thyrsus.com said: > Sadly, proportional is all you can do in the table model of XML-DocBook > (which is what asciidoc uses as a back end). Can I specify the total width in characters? Can we assume the width is appropriate for a man page? That might look ugly with narrow or wide web page

Re: asciidoc tables

2016-07-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > The table widths have things like: >[width="100%",cols="<34%,<33%,<33%"] > > I find that makes a table that is ugly and hard to read. > > I could tune the widths, but I don't know how wide the viewer's display will > be. Sadly, proportional is all you can do in the table m

asciidoc tables

2016-07-01 Thread Hal Murray
The table widths have things like: [width="100%",cols="<34%,<33%,<33%"] I find that makes a table that is ugly and hard to read. I could tune the widths, but I don't know how wide the viewer's display will be. Is there a better way to do things? I'd like to say "make this column as wide a