Re: [Docutils-users] Question about restructured text tables

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2017-04-19, Suzanne Hillman wrote:

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> I'm trying to figure out the best way to create basically a thumbnail grid
> using restructured text. My website is mostly in restructured text at this
> point, and I'd rather not have to make one of my pages plain HTML (or use
> the raw html directive).

> I took a look at the two ways to create tables (here:
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#tables),
> and as far as I can tell, there is no way to tell restructured text that it
> doesn't need to be as wide as the widest text within it.

The `table directive`__ may be your friend.
Ther you can specify the column widths and (with a current Docutils) also
set the column width to "auto" (let the backend decide).

For your use case, also the `list table`__ may be an option.

Günter

__ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#table
__ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#list-table