Another table-question: initial column-number for cells

[Andreas L Delmelle]

Hi,

The Rec describes the default value for the column-number on 
table-cells as:
"For the first table-cell in a table-row, the current column number is 
1..."

My question: is this also true in case there was a row-spanning cell 
from the previous row that already occupies the first column? IOW: May 
we assume that in that case, the first "free" column-number may be used 
(taking into account spans from previous rows)?

It's not all that difficult to track pending row-spans, so we could 
already take care of that when determining the initial value, and it 
makes more sense to me to interpret it that way, but just thought I'd 
ask...


Cheers,

Andreas