Re: [Docutils-develop] [Docutils-checkins] r5926 - trunk/docutils/test/functional/input/data/latex.txt

[David G. <go...@py...>]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:59,  <mi...@us...> wrote:
> Modified:
>   trunk/docutils/test/functional/input/data/latex.txt
...
> +.. Problem:
> +
> +   In LaTeX, 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.

It's not because of HTML. The table model that Docutils uses is the
"Exchange Table Model" (also known as CALS tables), which is an
industry standard (see docs/ref/soextblx.dtd). That model is what's
important. HTML happens to conform closely with that model, that's
all. The paragraph above puts the "blame" in the wrong place.

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>