Re: [Docutils-users] Writing Custom Directives, Expand Using Dynamic Data?

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

On 2019-09-01, Kent Borg wrote:

> So, since that previous e-mail, I went off and, with some help, did what 
> I described, and we are very close to declaring Phase I a victory. Phase 
> II will be putting this to practical work.

> Let me give you a report on how things have gone:

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> Building tables programmatically with ASCII art---um, no, correction: 
> utf-8 art!---

?? https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/feature-requests/6/

> is a bit ugly. 
> And building tables by creating the right 
> doctree nodes directly is not exactly well documented. At the moment we 
> are doing some of each and we will need to rationalize that.

Did you try list tables or CSV tables? Depending on your needs these may
facilitate your task a lot.

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#tables

Günter