Using the <colspec> tag

Description

<table frame="all" id="budgettable1">
  <name>Budget - Comparison by year</name>
  <tgroup cols="4" align="left" colsep="1" 
	  rowsep="1">
    <colspec colnum="1" colname="c1"/>
    <colspec colnum="2" colname="c2"/>
    <colspec colnum="3" colname="c3"/>
    <colspec colnum="4" colname="c4"/>
    <thead valign="top">
      <row>
	<entry morerows="1" 
	       align="center">Item</entry>
	<entry namest="c2" nameend="c4" 
	       align="center">Year</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
	<entry align="center">1998</entry>
	<entry align="center">1999</entry>
	<entry align="center">2000</entry>
      </row>
    </thead>
    <tbody valign="top">
      <row>
	<entry>Income</entry>
	<entry>12,293</entry>
	<entry>12,398</entry>
	<entry>14,298</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
	<entry>Expenditure</entry>
	<entry>293</entry>
	<entry>398</entry>
	<entry>298</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
	<entry>Surplus</entry>
	<entry>12000</entry>
	<entry>12000</entry>
	<entry>14000</entry>
      </row>
    </tbody>
  </tgroup>
</table>
	

Attributes(what's this?)

• colnum (optional): Number of the column.
  Possible values:
  • a number
• colname (optional): Name of the column (used by entry and entrytbl).
• colwidth (optional): The width of the column.
  Possible values:
  • a proportional measure (i.e. number*) - 5* means five times the proportion.
  • a fixed measure (i.e. a number followed by units) - 3pt means 3 point.
  • a mixed measure - 5*+3pt means five times the proportion plus 3 point.
  Default comes from a named style specification (if it exists). If the style specification does not exist or if it is "", then colwidth='1*'.
• colsep (optional): Sets whether the internal column rulings are displayed or not.
  Possible values:
  • 0 - do not display column rulings.
  • any other number - display column rulings.
  Default comes from the nearest spanspec or tgroup.
• rowsep (optional): Sets whether the internal row rulings are displayed or not.
  Possible values:
  • 0 - Do not display row rulings.
  • any other number - Display row rulings.
  Default comes from the nearest spanspec or tgroup.
• align (optional): Sets how the text will be aligned.
  Possible values:
  • left - Left aligned.
  • right - Right aligned.
  • center - Center aligned.
  • justify - Right and left aligned.
  • char - Aligns to the leftmost occurrence of the value of the char attribute.
  Default comes from tgroup, its tgroupstyle attribute, otherwise it is "left".
• char (optional): The character used in the align attribute. Default is from nearest entrytbl, if it exists, otherwise comes from tgroup.
• charoff (optional): The pertcentage of the column width to the left of the char used in the align attribute. Default is from nearest entrytbl, if it exists, otherwise comes from tgroup.
• id (optional): A unique identifier, whose value must begin with a letter and contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, colons, and/or periods (no spaces).

Children(what's this?)

The colspec tag is an empty tag and does not contain any children.

Parents(what's this?)

tgroup, thead, tfoot, entrytbl