[Docutils-develop] [docutils:bugs] #444 Table column width rounding can result in uneven column widths

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

- **status**: open --> open-fixed
- **Comment**:

Fixed in [r9009].
The Docutils LaTeX writer already uses 3 digit precision and fixed the "ignored width" bug with the new algorithm for table column widths in release 0.18 (cf. [bugs:#422]). Sphinx uses a LaTeX writer fork so using Docutils >= 0.18 will not fix Sphinx behaviour "automagically".

Thank you for your report.



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** [bugs:#444] Table column width rounding can result in uneven column widths**

**Status:** open-fixed
**Created:** Thu Feb 10, 2022 06:13 AM UTC by Alex Forencich
**Last Updated:** Fri Feb 11, 2022 09:25 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


In the HTML generated for a table with 8 equal-width columns, the column widths in the generated colgroups are all rounded up from 12.5% to 13%, resulting in the last column being much too narrow (0.5 * 7 = 3.5, 3.5/12.5 = 0.28, so the accumulated error is almost 30%).  The fix would be to revise the rounding in `depart_colspec` in `_html_base.py` to produce at least one decimal place, instead of rounding to the nearest integer.


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