Re: [PATCH] docs: pdfdocs: Prevent column squeezing by tabulary

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Jun 01 2021 - 18:50:07 EST


Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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