Re: @multitable with prototype row has no effect in html

[Raymond Toy]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 10:59 AM Raymond Toy <toy.raymond@gmail.com> 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.)

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Ray