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Hi to all!

The list tables formatting is included in the Contributor guide. See
http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/rst-conv/tables.html
for the details.

Best,
Olga

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Meg McRoberts <dreidellhasa at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, RST tables suck.  I'm finding that using list-table is a lot easier
> and
> at least allows me to specify the column widths.  For example:
>
> .. list-table::
>   :widths: 25 25 50
>   :header-rows: 1
>
> Gives three columns; each of the first two columns consume 25% of the page
> width and the third column consumes the remaining 50%.
>
> Andreas told me about list-tables to solve the line length problems in the
> source files but I'm finding they solve other problems as well.
>
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> *From:* Lana Brindley <openstack at lanabrindley.com>
> *To:* openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 15, 2015 1:45 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [OpenStack-docs] Improving tables for RST guides
>
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> On 16/11/15 04:13, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > On 11/15/2015 06:16 PM, Gauvain Pocentek wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> This is a request for help :)
> >>
> >> Tables genereated in RST guides are not very nice at the moment (at
> >> least in the config-ref, see
> >>
> http://docs.openstack.org/draft/config-ref-rst/firewalls-default-ports.html
> >> for instance).
> >>
> >> Do we already have a way to generate nicer tables, or do we have a CSS
> >> expert who could maybe update the theme? I'd be happy to do it myself
> >> but I'm *really* bad at that kind of things.
> >
> > There's one change for better padding unreleased, see
> > I25dc93686e45fdbc1522cded7ab413cc9d4bb0b8
> >
> > But that's just one small piece of the problem,
>
> Tables in RST generally are pretty awful. The padding will help, but I'm
> not sure what else can be done.
>
> L
>
> - --
> Lana Brindley
> Technical Writer
> Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
> http://lanabrindley.com
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Best regards,
Olga Gusarenko

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