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<h4 class="subsection">11.5.1 Multitable Column Widths</h4>
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<p>You can define the column widths for a multitable in two ways: as
fractions of the line length; or with a prototype row.  Mixing the two
methods is not supported.  In either case, the widths are defined
entirely on the same line as the <code>@multitable</code> command.
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<li> <a name="index-columnfractions"></a>
<a name="index-Line-length_002c-column-widths-as-fraction-of"></a>
To specify column widths as fractions of the line length, write
<code>@columnfractions</code> and the decimal numbers (presumably less than
1; a leading zero is allowed and ignored) after the
<code>@multitable</code> command, as in:

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<pre class="example">@multitable @columnfractions .33 .33 .33
</pre></div>

<p>The fractions need not add up exactly to 1.0, as these do not.  This
allows you to produce tables that do not need the full line length.
</p>
</li><li> <a name="index-Prototype-row_002c-column-widths-defined-by"></a>
To specify a prototype row, write the longest entry for each column
enclosed in braces after the <code>@multitable</code> command.  For example:

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<pre class="example">@multitable {some text for column one} {for column two}
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<p>The first column will then have the width of the typeset &lsquo;some text for
column one&rsquo;, and the second column the width of &lsquo;for column two&rsquo;.
</p>
<p>The prototype entries need not appear in the table itself.
</p>
<p>Although we used simple text in this example, the prototype entries can
contain Texinfo commands; markup commands such as <code>@code</code> are
particularly likely to be useful.
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