diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6a99da416..7c9c9ad94 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2007-07-29  Brian Matherly <brian@gramps-project.org>
+	* src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py: Make column spans work.
+
 2007-07-29  Brian Matherly <brian@gramps-project.org>
 	* src/plugins/EndOfLineReport.py: Add End of Line report
 	* src/plugins/Makefile.in: Add EndOfLineReport.py
diff --git a/src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py b/src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py
index 4ae208353..5e97f7a81 100644
--- a/src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py
+++ b/src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py
@@ -320,6 +320,8 @@ class AsciiDoc(BaseDoc.BaseDoc,BaseDoc.TextDoc):
         self.cellnum = self.cellnum + span
         span = span - 1
         while span:
+            self.cell_widths[self.cellnum] += \
+                self.cell_widths[self.cellnum-span]
             self.cell_widths[self.cellnum-span] = 0
             span = span - 1