Re: lynx-dev Re: Incorrect centering

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:39:20PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> 
> The kind of tables I seem to have trouble reading in Lynx are those that
> have a "O" or "X" for something like supported and not supported, e.g.,
>                  Solaris  NetBSD  FreeBSD  Linux  Windoze
>        Model 543    O        O       O       O       X
>        Model 024    O        O       O       O       X
>        Model 001    X        O       O       X       X
> 
> Doesn't Lynx do some thing like:
>    Solaris NetBSD FreeBSD Linux Windoze
>   Model 543 O O O O X
>   Model 024 O O O O X
>   Model 001 X O O X X
> 
> I haven't looked at the source of one of these for a long time, but I think a
> lot of them rely on align="center" kind of stuff to get the effect they want.

I don't think that's correct - it seems that lynx doesn't reserve space
to fill out the columns for alignment, because it isn't tracking the
widths of the cells "Solaris" line along with the others.

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