[Docutils-users] table width problem remains for rst2latex

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

After some months, I am raising this issue again.

rst2latex tries but fails to extend the table across the 
page width.  Since it does not take account of some of the 
space produced by tables, it fails badly. The tables are
much wider than the page width.

I believe rst2latex should either fix this or stop trying to 
impose widths.  I am happy with either---indeed, I would 
prefer the latter---but the current behavior is very bad.

At the least, could we have an option to turn off attempts
to control the column width?

I see two other changes that are desirable.
The first is important: the stub option is being ignored.
As in the HTML writer, stubs should be recognized (a by
default be bold).

The second is less pressing but I think desirable.
The table stubs and headers should be given a semantic
rather than presentational tags.
So instead of \textbf{myheader} I'd like to see
for example \DUth{myheader}.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

PS The ability to use booktabs is much appreciated!