[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

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[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- stage: - needs patch versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4145

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Changes by Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- components: +Documentation tools (Sphinx) -Documentation ___ Python tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue4145 ___

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: Here is the screenshot: ABCs-2.png Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11835/ABCs-2.png ___ Python tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue4145 ___

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: There are some 200 tables in the 2.6 documentation, 150 alone in library.tex - and a few less in the 3.0rc1 documentation. So may suggest a course of action: since most of these tables produces reasonable results by using your automatic

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: An the PDF view of the same table Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11828/Screenshot-library.pdf - Adobe Reader.png ___ Python tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue4145

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

New submission from Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wonder if the readabiliy of tables in PDFs can be improved. I take the example of ABCs. The online documentation can be found at http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html, the rst source is at /Doc/library/collections.rst. I'll

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Georg Brandl [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: The only way to get this right for arbitrary tables is to hand-select the column widths with a tabularcolumns directive. I'll keep this issue open and optimize these columns step by step. -- priority: - normal

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: Oh, what a pain, if you have to do it by hand! Is there no other way of doing it by counting record lengths (in a column) - see below? Just for the grins of it, I modified collections.html a bit to show more on the first page. Then I

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: I probed a bit more into HTML output and the column width of tabulary entries is always present in the HTML output. I don't yet know where these relative widths are calculated, but I do roughly know how they are calculated: from the width of

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Georg Brandl [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: The advantage of HTML here is that the browser dynamically adjusts the column widths to prevent things like in your screenshot from happening. LaTeX does no such thing. If you tell it that the column width 20%, the column will not be enlarged to

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: Hi Georg, the only thing I could find on the net is a reference to: \begin{tabular}{p{1in}p{2in}} at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Misc/LaTeX-Tutorial/Tables.html. Assuming that one knows the effective width of the whole table, one then

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: Hi Georg, I tried to find a few bones and came up with the following little demo. I pinched the first few lines from http://www.latex-community.org/viewtopic.php?f=5t=910 and set up a table with defined column widths - see attached file.

[issue4145] tabulary entries in PDF documentation

Changes by Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11834/test_latex-2.tex ___ Python tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue4145 ___