From: <mi...@us...> - 2009-04-29 07:05:48
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Author: milde Date: 2009-04-29 09:05:39 +0200 (Wed, 29 Apr 2009) New Revision: 5928 Modified: trunk/docutils/test/functional/input/data/latex.txt Log: Correctly describe the reason for the multirow-LaTeX problem (from docutils-devel post by D. G.). Modified: trunk/docutils/test/functional/input/data/latex.txt =================================================================== --- trunk/docutils/test/functional/input/data/latex.txt 2009-04-28 08:06:15 UTC (rev 5927) +++ trunk/docutils/test/functional/input/data/latex.txt 2009-04-29 07:05:39 UTC (rev 5928) @@ -204,17 +204,21 @@ Rowspanning tables ------------------ -Several rowspanning cells in a table. +Several rowspanning cells in a table. .. Problem: - In LaTeX, if there are multirow cells, the "overwritten" cells need to be - defined as empty cells. + In the LaTeX `multicol` package, if there are multirow cells, the + "overwritten" cells need to be defined as empty cells. - However, visit_entry() is only called for the remaining cells, as HTML - expects only remaining cells. So the LaTeX writer needs bookkeeping - to write out the required number of extra '&'s. + Docutils (similarily to HTML) uses is the "Exchange Table Model" (also + known as CALS tables, see docs/ref/soextblx.dtd) which defines only the + remaining cells in a row "affected" by multirow cells. + Therefore, visit_entry() is only called for the remaining cells and the + LaTeX writer needs bookkeeping to write out the required number of extra + '&'s. + .. class:: standard +-----------+------------+------------------+-----------+ @@ -244,5 +248,3 @@ +-----------+ +-----------+ | cell 13 | | cell 43 | +-----------+------------+-----------+ - - |