1<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 2 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 3 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" 4 xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" 5 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 6 version="5.0" xml:id="nominal.table.width"> 7<refmeta> 8<refentrytitle>nominal.table.width</refentrytitle> 9<refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">length</refmiscinfo> 10</refmeta> 11<refnamediv> 12<refname>nominal.table.width</refname> 13<refpurpose>The (absolute) nominal width of tables</refpurpose> 14</refnamediv> 15 16<refsynopsisdiv> 17<src:fragment xml:id="nominal.table.width.frag"> 18<xsl:param name="nominal.table.width">6in</xsl:param> 19</src:fragment> 20</refsynopsisdiv> 21 22<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> 23 24<para>In order to convert CALS column widths into HTML column widths, it 25is sometimes necessary to have an absolute table width to use for conversion 26of mixed absolute and relative widths. This value must be an absolute 27length (not a percentage).</para> 28 29</refsection> 30</refentry> 31