Re: [Docutils-develop] Re: modulename/dreamcatcher/rlpdf...

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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, David Abrahams wrote:

> David Goodger <go...@py...> writes:
>
> Sure, no problem.
>
> >> One major problem I have with going through the LaTeX translator is
> >> that the width of table cells is determined by the physical width in
> >> the ReST document, and I often put long ``....`` strings in my
> >> tables which causes them to run off the page.

this definately is a feature not a bug.

the logic for me goes along the lines of:

  The reST document is the document formatted to be viewed printed
  and so on, therefore the tablewidth used in the reST document should
  be correct for latex too.

  The mistake is in your document which is not printable at first.

anyway, i did it because of narrow tables, e.g.

    +---+------+
    | 1 | one  |
    | 2 | two  |
    | * | star |
    +---+------+

should not give a table of full page width in latex, this looks ugly.

but the algorith is open for discussion, if you want to propose something or
sent me an example. maybe what you need is not a table ?


> >
> > I'm not following.  Can you provide an example?
>
> When I format these two tables with rst2latex, and then convert the
> result to PDF, I get the enclosed.
>
>     +----------+----------+----------+
>     |a         |b         |c         |
>     +==========+==========+==========+
>     |d         |e         |f         |
>     +----------+----------+----------+
>
>
>     +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
>     |g                   |h                   |i                   |
>     +====================+====================+====================+
>     |j                   |k                   |l                   |
>     +--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
>

the tables look good you could argue about alignment, but not
about width.



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