On 12/18/2013 07:55 PM, Jeff Hooker wrote:
When using the click-and-drag feature to resize table columns, I don’t understand the rationale behind how my actions affect the table. When I have a table with 5 columns, and I grab the line separating column 2 and column 3 and drag it to the right, rather than just making column 2 bigger and column 3 smaller, column 5 also grows and every column other than column 5 and column 2 shrinks. When I grab the same line and drag it to the left now, once again column 5 grows. In fact, every time I adjust any of the first four columns, column 5 grows and every column other than the column I’m expanding and column 5 shrinks. I’ve looked for some logic in how this resizing is being applied, but can’t find it. It makes it difficult to use this feature to actually size a table’s columns because columns that I’m not touching are nevertheless changing with every adjustment. What am I missing here?
Generally speaking, if you use the "drag column to resize it" feature, then you must accept to loose some control on the widths of the columns of the table.
We have chosen to express the width of a CALS/DocBook table columns in proportional measures. Example: <colspec colwidth="3*"/>
We have chosen to express the width of an HTML table columns in percentages. Example: <colgroup with="6%"/>
The behavior you describe sometimes cannot be avoided because the width of a column is expressed in proportional measures or in percentages (coarse rounding of the widths of the columns of the table).
The behavior you describe would never happen if we had chosen to express the width of columns in pixels or in another absolute unit (pt, pc, etc).
This being said, after reading your severe report, we'll thoroughly recheck our implementation. May be we'll be able to improve how the "drag column to resize it" feature works in the case of proportional measures (percentages seem to give better results than proportional measures).
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