There is your mistake. HTML is explicitly not about formatting pages. It
is about describing the structure of a document to a computer. Other
formats (perhaps used in conjunction with HTML) must describe its
formatting. This is the point behind style sheets. They are external
documents that describe the desired format of a document.
> Options
> that I don't see available in:
> http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html
Hopefully you will never see formatting options in HTML. HTML 3.0 provides
a mechanism for specifying external style sheets. That is where you
should put your columns. Not in HTML.
Paul Prescod