#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # Script to rewrite colspecs from relative values to absolute values # # arjen 2002-03-14 append "cm" specifier to colwidth field. use strict; my $table_width = 12.75; # cm my $gutter_width = 0.09; # cm my $str = join '', <>; $str =~ s{([\t ]*(\s*)+)} {&rel2abs($1)}ges; print STDOUT $str; exit; # # Definitions for helper sub-routines # sub msg { print STDERR shift, "\n"; } sub rel2abs { my $str = shift; my @widths = (); my $total = 0; my $output = ''; $str =~ /^(\s+)/; my $ws = $1; while ($str =~ m//g) { $total += $1; push @widths, $1; } my $unit = ($table_width - ($#widths * $gutter_width)) / ($total); foreach (@widths) { $output .= $ws . '' . "\n"; } return $output . "\n$ws"; }