column-width

I'm trying to convert the data from a large number of PDF files to data frames in R. I've been converting the PDF files to .txt files using read.fwf(), but the issue is that the widths of all .txt files are not the same. Is there a way to determine the widths of the columns, or is there a way to use a function other than read.fwf()? I have a large number of files to convert and they all have different formats to begin with, so finding the specific column widths for each file is getting very tedious. Is there a more efficient way to convert data from PDF files to data frames in R? Here's one

Original question: Does HTML <table> have a default width? Recently someone asked a question somewhere along these lines, and got me wondering. Take this for example. http://jsfiddle.net/rqmNY/1/ In this fiddle, if you were to check its width (I'm using inspect element from chrome), it shows 100px , working as intended. Lets add a few more "td"s in, and we shall see that the " td:100px " css is being ignored. http://jsfiddle.net/rqmNY/2/ As you can see, now it's 83px instead of 100px as originally intended. But let's say, I move back to fewer TD's (7), and I add in a wider width to each TD

Under the View-Model-ViewModel pattern for WPF, I am trying to databind the Heights and Widths of various definitions for grid controls, so I can store the values the user sets them to after using a GridSplitter. However, the normal pattern doesn't seem to work for these particular properties. Note: I'm posting this as a reference question that I'm posting as Google failed me and I had to work this out myself. My own answer to follow. Greg Sansom Create a IValueConverter as follows: public class GridLengthConverter : IValueConverter { public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object