asciidoc tables

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at 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 ugly 
> with narrow or wide web pages but it will probably be better for the typical 
> case.  (at least the way I read web pages)

Yes, the stylesheet does do that.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>