Re: [Docutils-users] Table layout settings

[Greger C. <gre...@ya...>]

Thanks for both your answers!

I'm not a big html/css hacker, so for the html-part I tried to modify 
html4css1.py and am happy with that (visit_table, with the changes I 
described in my earlier post). I also did a quick-n-dirty hack of 
latex2e.py (with booktabs, so yes booktabs works with longtable) and am 
happy with that also.

One thing about the latex writer though; the columnwidths generated 
(p{X.XX\textwidth}) are sometimes unnecessarily small, try e.g.

=== ===
CL1 CL2
=== ===
ys  asd
--- ---
sda ase
=== ===

where latex tries to wrap the header giving an ugly extra line above CL1 
CL2.


Regards, Greger

gr...@us... wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Greger Cronquist wrote:
>
>
>>I'm new to reStructured Text and am experimenting to see if I can use it
>>instead of what I use today. One thing that I've stumbled on is table
>>layout. I want to produce a printable document so I convert from reST to
>>LaTeX, but I can't get the tables to look good (even in html).
>>
>>Basically what I want is to have tables that look like they would if
>>they'd had the html attributes frame="hsides" and rules="groups", i.e.
>>horizonal lines below and above the table as well as between the header
>>and the rest of the contents (as an advanced option it would be great to
>>have the surrounding top and bottom lines thicker than the internal, as
>>when using the booktabs style for LaTeX,
>>http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/booktabs.pdf)
>>
>>Any hints for how I should go about this?
>>
>
>impossible without patching the source.
>
>question for latexwriter
>
>  does booktabs work with the longtable
>
>could you test please ?
>
>* then add top bottom and midline commands, defaulting to hline
>  to the writer
>* describe redefinition in stylesheet.
>* add a switch to make tables without vertical lines possible.
>* check if the writer can distinguish between tables with and without
>  if so this could be used to have to different classes of tables.
>* specify a class for the table ?
>
>cheers
>
>