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

[Alex F. <afo...@us...>]

Thanks for the fix!  All I need is that there is a way to specify things in the rst so that both the HTML and the LaTeX output look OK, so if that means specifying :widths: grid or explicit widths, then that's not a problem.  The  bigger issue, however, is that Arch Linux appears to be holding back the docutils package due to some issue between docutils and recommonmark, which is particularly annoying as recommonmark seems to be deprecated.  But that's beyond the scope of this issue.


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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:** Sat Feb 19, 2022 11:42 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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