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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: "Wu X.C." <bobwxc@email.cn>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: pdfdocs: Prevent column squeezing by tabulary
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:50:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eedl8ajp.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <277d68fa-c96a-0ccb-6ce0-4d314851d9fe@gmail.com>

Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> writes:

> Setting a reasonable width to \tymin prevents column squeezing
> by tabulary.
> Width of 20em works well in almost all the tables still in the
> ascii-art format.
>
> Excerpt from tabulary package documentation at [1]:
>
>     To stop very narrow columns being too 'squeezed' by this process
>     any columns that are narrower than \tymin are set to their natural
>     width.
>
> [1]: https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabulary/tabulary.pdf
>
> Note: Sphinx has its own default value of \tymin set in
> sphinxlatextables.sty (Sphinx 4.0.2) and sphinxmulticell.sty
> (Sphinx 2.4.4) as follows:
>
>     \setlength{\tymin}{3\fontcharwd\font`0 }
>
> , which is not sufficient for kernel-doc.
>
> Tested against Sphinx versions 2.4.4 and 4.0.2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> ---
> Hi all,
>
> This is another attempt to improve pdfdocs output.
> As far as I see, I don't see any obvious regression by
> this change.
>
> The effect of this change can be seen in (not limited to)
> the MODULE_LICENSE section in process.pdf (pages 10 and 11).
>
> I'd like to know this change looks reasonable to you.
>
> Any feedback is welcome!
>
>         Thanks, Akira
>
> --
>  Documentation/conf.py | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Applied, thanks.

jon

      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-01 22:50 UTC|newest]

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2021-05-29 15:19 [PATCH] docs: pdfdocs: Prevent column squeezing by tabulary Akira Yokosawa
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