Re: [Docutils-develop] latex writer

[David G. <go...@py...>]

[David Goodger]
>> 2. Near the end of the table, there's a cell that spans both
>>    columns.  It doesn't have any border in the PDF file.  It
>>    should.  In this particular case it looks OK (it's a
>>    pseudo-title), but it's >> still wrong.

[Engelbert Gruber]
> in the html version there is no border at all. is this because the
> table was without vertical lines or because of me.

Are you referring to the markup in the source file being a simple
table, without "|" characters between columns?  That doesn't get
stored in the doctree, and doesn't influence the output.  A grid table
produces the exact same doctree as an equivalent simple table.

I suspect it may be a browser/stylesheet issue.  In Mozilla and IE I
see the table with full borders and row/column separators.

> should i make no border too.

There should be a border by default.

> tables are an itch and used far to often

Not following you here.

> the configuration files entries might be done by a description
> environment as the option-list, but this might need another markup,
> if we donot use field-lists.

That's just avoiding the real issue.  If there's a bug in table
processing, you can't say "use feature X instead", unless tables (or
some aspect of tables) are not supported at all, in which case the
docs and help (and even the code) should say so explicitly.

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