On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 12:29:08AM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 11:29:37PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > I converted one of the big tables to CSV. At least now it recognized > > it as a table. Yet, the table was very badly formated: > > > > https://mchehab.fedorapeople.org/media-kabi-docs-test/rst_tests/packed-rgb.html > > > > This is how this table should look like: > > https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/packed-rgb.html > > > > Also, as this table has merged cells at the legend. I've no idea how > > to tell sphinx to do that on csv format. > > > > The RST files are on this git tree: > > https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/v4l2-docs-poc.git/ > > Yeah, seems it can't do merged cells in csv. Attached patch converts it > back to grid table format and fixes the table definition. > The html output looks usable, but clearly it is no fun to > work with tables in Sphinx. > > Sphinx' latex writer can't handle nested tables, though. > Python's docutils rst2latex can, but that doesn't help here. > rst2pdf also supports it. But I have doubts such a large > table would render OK in pdf without using landscape orientation. > I have not tried because I used python3-sphinx but rst2pdf > is only availble for Python2 in Debian so it does not integrate > with Sphinx.
Just a quick idea: Perhaps one alternative would be to use Graphviz to render the problematic tables, it supports a HTML-like syntax and can be embedded in Spinx documents: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/graphviz.html http://www.graphviz.org/content/node-shapes#html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13890568/graphviz-html-nested-tables Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
