On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:57:14AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > Knowing in advance the number of columns is important if you want to do > > proper markup for anything not tab-bound. > > I see sense both in what you and Uwe are saying. Could we resolve it > by adding a magic "-fill" argument to mark a final column that should > use up the remainder of the page width? For example, for a three column > table in which the first two columns have fixed width and the last > column fills the remainder of the page, use > > .Bl -column "FIRST" "SECOND" -fill > > If you just teach groff-mdoc to ignore the "-fill" argument, then I > think it will do the right thing. You'd have to tech mdocml to handle > -fill explicitly. > > This also leaves the door open for a future enhancement to allow "-fill" > somewhere other than the last column. I like that idea. Thomas