[l2h] [99.2beta2] @{} produces an extra column

[Luc Van Eycken]

Hi,

using @{} in the specification of a tabular generates an extra column. This
shows up if the resulting TABLE has a border. I can understand that this is
needed for the case of "@{xxx}" but IMHO not for "@{}". Take for instants

  \begin{tabular}{@{}ll@{}}
    \hline
    Item & Description \\
    \hline
    A    & Item 1 \\
    B    & Item 2 \\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}

In LaTeX it generates 2 nice columns without excess left and right space
but in HTML I get 4 columns. Applying the patch included below solves this
problem.

Is there any reason not to apply the patch?
If not, could it be included in the distribution?

Best regards,

Luc Van Eycken

--- latex2html-99.2beta2/versions/html3_2.pl.orig	Fri Sep 17 07:15:09 1999
+++ latex2html-99.2beta2/versions/html3_2.pl	Wed Oct 13 17:29:17 1999
@@ -413,7 +413,8 @@
 #	    if ( $#colspec > -1) {
 #	        $colspec[$#colspec] .= join('', "<TD ALIGN=\"LEFT\">",$celldata,'</TD>');
 #	    } else { $at_text .= join ('', $celldata , '</TD><TD>' ) }
-	    push (@colspec, join('', "<TD ALIGN=\"LEFT\">",$celldata,'</TD>'));
+	    push (@colspec, join('', "<TD ALIGN=\"LEFT\">",$celldata,'</TD>'))
+	      if $celldata ne '';
 	    $celldata = '';
 
 	} elsif ( $char =~ /\>/ ) {