Description The spanspec tag identifies a horizontal span of columns and associated attributes that can subsequently be referenced by its spanname for repeated use in entry or entrytbl in different rows.

Attributes (what's this?)

• namest (required): Name of the furthest left column in a span.
• nameend (required): Name of the furthest right column in a span.
• spanname (required): Name for the horizontal span (used by entry and entrytbl).
• 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 colspec of the column specified in the namest attribute.
• 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 colspec of the column specified in the namest attribute.
• 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 the tgroupstyle attribute if it exists, otherwise it is "center".
• char (optional): The character used in the align attribute. Default comes from the colspec of the column specified in the namest attribute.
• charoff (optional): The pertcentage of the column width to the left of the char used in the align attribute. Default comes from the colspec of the column specified in the namest attribute.
• 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 spanspec tag is an empty tag and does not contain any children.

Parents (what's this?)tgroup, entrytbl