DOCBOOK: Re: pagebreaks (Re: Which conversion method should I use?)

/ Bar嫢h G墎or <> was heard to say:
| On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 15:09, Norman Walsh wrote:
|> / Bar嫢h G墎or <> was heard to say:
|> | about tables: if i know well, colwidth attribute has measure only like
|> | inch or cm and not %. IMHO 2cm has no semantic meaning. The width of
|> | column depends on font and paper size or window width in html.
|> 
|> That's why CALS allows relative units.
|
| I don't find in cals something like that. Whould you be so kind
| give me some examples.

Sure. Here's a table that will be formatted such that the first column
is always three units wide and the second column is always two units
wide, where "units" is a relative measure left up to the formatter.

<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colwidth="3*"/>
<colspec colwidth="2*"/>
...

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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