Table column width in pipe tables

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I'm using pipe tables like

| Key combo | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Shift + Cmd + arrows up/down | go through MoneyWiz sections such as 
Accounts, Dashboard, Budgets, Reports, etc. |

quite a bit. 

(1) However I do not understand the logic *how the width of the table 
columns is determined*. In the case above the 2nd column will be extremely 
narrow. 

I can rectify this by longer dash lines like

| --------- | --------- |

But why? And how long do I have to make them? (I would have thought the 
*relative* length would be used; so in the case of the dash line

| --- | --- |

each column would get a max of 50%.)

(2) The documentation says:

If a pipe table contains a row whose printable content is wider than the 
column width (see --columns), then the cell contents will wrap, with the 
relative cell widths determined by the widths of the separator lines.

However elsewhere the doco states that --columns "affects only the 
generated source code". So what's the logic and mechanism here?

Many thanks,
Leo

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