11<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
22<html lang="en">
3- <!-- $Id: tables.src,v 1.20 1997-10-21 00:35:43 ian Exp $ -->
3+ <!-- $Id: tables.src,v 1.21 1997-10-22 02:06:48 ian Exp $ -->
44<head>
55<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
66<title>Tables</title>
@@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ following rules.</p>
7777<p>Columns are placed next to each other in the order they occur. Each
7878one occupies the number of grid columns given by its <span
7979class="propinst-column-span">'column-span'</span> property. A column
80- group occupies the same columns as the columns contained in it. [Is
81- this true? How does 'column-span' work for column-groups? BB] The
80+ group occupies the same columns as the columns contained in it. The
8281first column may be either on the left or on the right, depending on
8382the value of the <span class="propinst-direction">'direction'</span>
8483property of the table.</p>
@@ -97,9 +96,7 @@ possible, but may not overlap with any other cell, and must be to the
9796right of all cells in the same row that are earlier in the source
9897document. (If the <span class="propinst-direction">'direction'</span>
9998of the table is 'right-to-left', interchange "left" and "right" in the
100- previous sentence.) [HTML allows some parts of cells to overlap, but
101- it is hard to see a use for this. Should we nevertheless allow this?
102- BB]</p>
99+ previous sentence.) </p>
103100
104101<p>Cells are <span class="propinst-row-span">'row-span'</span> high
105102only if there are enough rows: a cell cannot extend below the last row
@@ -171,8 +168,8 @@ follows:</p>
171168class="propinst-width">'width'</span> property of the column box.</p>
172169</li>
173170<li>
174- <p>However, if there is no column box, the width is given by the first
175- cell in the column.</p>
171+ <p>However, if there is no column box, the width is given by the width
172+ requirements of the cells in the column.</p>
176173</li>
177174<li>
178175<p>If the value of <span class="propinst-width">'width'</span> for the
@@ -438,7 +435,7 @@ that means, in particular, that <span
438435class="propinst-text-align">'text-align'</span> applies to
439436it. However, tables also allow a way of aligning text that does not
440437apply to other blocks, and that is aligning the contents of several
441- cells so that they all align on, e.g., a decimal point.
438+ cells so that they all align on, e.g., a decimal point (".")
442439
443440<p>More precisely, if the value of 'text-align' for a certain cell is
444441a string, that cell has an <dfn>alignment point</dfn>, which is the
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