It appears that in fixing CONF-6717 the ability to specify a fixed-width column is completely stuffed. For example, this used to work:

{section} {column:width=200px}
Stuff...{column} {column}
Other stuff...{column}{section}

This used to display the first column with a width of 200 pixels and the second column filling the remaining space on the page. Which is exactly what I want. However, in 2.2.9 this produces a table with the first column being set to 'width=100%' - not exactly what I was after.

Why is it using the 'width' parameter at all. How about using 'style="width: xxx"' instead, which allows us to specify what units we want. If no unit value is specified add either '%' or 'px' and move on with life...