[Docutils-develop] [ docutils-Patches-2977130 ] Improved table colum width support

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Patches item #2977130, was opened at 2010-03-26 16:27
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: James Evans (jrevans)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Improved table colum width support

Initial Comment:
This patch does two things:

1 ) adds a 'widths' option to the 'table' directive that allows for specifying of column widths for a standard table, much like csv-table does.

2) add a 'nocolgroup' option to the 'table' directive that instructs the HTML write to not output any 'colgroup' tags for the table.

The patch is not perfect, but has made using tables many, many, many times easier for myself and my team members.

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>Comment By: Günter Milde (milde)
Date: 2010-03-31 08:04

Message:
Adding "width" to the table directive to bring it in line with csv-table
and list-table makes sense to me.
We need, however, support for all writers, not just the HTML one.

What problems do you have with the "colgroup"?
As this seems to be writer specific, I suggest using a special 
class value instead of a new option for the "nocolgroup". 
This would also allow to specify this in the config file as default 
for all tables (with the table-style setting/cmd-line option).

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