From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
Graham Whaley <graham.whaley@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 09:48:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160307084826.GA6381@linuxtv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160306232908.GA3732@linuxtv.org>
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
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2016-02-13 21:53 Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit Jonathan Corbet
2016-02-14 0:57 ` Keith Packard
2016-02-14 12:27 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-02-14 16:27 ` Keith Packard
2016-02-17 22:14 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-02-17 22:29 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-02-18 9:11 ` Jani Nikula
2016-02-18 9:24 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-02-18 10:26 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-02-18 11:23 ` Jani Nikula
2016-02-18 12:04 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-02-18 12:07 ` Hans Verkuil
2016-02-18 12:44 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-02-18 13:34 ` Patrick Boettcher
2016-02-18 13:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-02-18 14:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-02-16 8:25 ` Jani Nikula
2016-02-16 16:08 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-02-16 17:11 ` Jani Nikula
2016-02-16 19:13 ` Keith Packard
2016-02-16 19:59 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-02-17 0:01 ` Keith Packard
2016-03-03 14:03 ` Jani Nikula
2016-03-03 14:13 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-03-03 14:34 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-03-03 15:17 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-03-03 15:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-03-03 18:50 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-03 23:23 ` Keith Packard
2016-03-04 1:19 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-04 8:29 ` Jani Nikula
2016-03-04 8:59 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2016-03-04 12:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-04 14:09 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2016-03-06 2:29 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-06 23:29 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2016-03-07 8:48 ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
2016-03-07 12:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-07 12:19 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-04 7:28 ` Russel Winder
2016-03-04 7:46 ` Jani Nikula
2016-03-08 4:53 ` Russel Winder
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2016-03-08 9:49 ` Jani Nikula
2016-03-08 11:29 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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2016-03-08 13:39 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-08 15:39 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-09 21:27 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-10 10:25 ` Jani Nikula
2016-03-10 15:21 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-13 15:33 ` Markus Heiser
2016-04-08 15:12 ` Markus Heiser
2016-04-12 9:18 ` Hans Verkuil
2016-04-12 15:46 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-04-18 9:49 ` Markus Heiser
2016-04-27 14:28 ` Grant Likely
2016-05-03 14:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-05-03 15:54 ` Keith Packard
2016-05-04 9:34 ` Markus Heiser
2016-05-04 9:58 ` Jani Nikula
2016-05-04 12:40 ` Markus Heiser
2016-05-04 13:41 ` Jani Nikula
2016-05-04 15:09 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-05-04 13:43 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-05-04 14:18 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-05-04 14:57 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-05-04 15:02 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-05-04 16:32 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-05-04 15:44 ` Jani Nikula
2016-05-04 16:38 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-05-04 15:55 ` Markus Heiser
2016-05-04 16:13 ` Jani Nikula
2016-05-04 16:50 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-05-04 16:59 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-05-04 17:57 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-05-05 13:02 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-05-05 13:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-05-06 11:23 ` Markus Heiser
2016-05-06 11:44 ` Markus Heiser
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2016-05-06 14:27 ` Markus Heiser
2016-05-06 14:27 ` Markus Heiser
2016-05-06 15:06 ` Jani Nikula
2016-05-06 15:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-05-06 15:35 ` Markus Heiser
2016-05-06 15:52 ` Jani Nikula
2016-05-06 15:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-05-04 16:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-05-06 10:05 ` Markus Heiser
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2016-05-06 16:26 ` Markus Heiser
2016-05-06 17:06 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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2016-04-18 8:10 ` Markus Heiser
2016-04-18 11:16 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
[not found] ` <CAKeHnO7_7k8Qc5Jmu_x2OzAVT4YXxW8PSe_m6QUP-8V7XxbTVw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-03-08 13:30 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-08 13:58 ` Jani Nikula
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2016-03-09 8:57 ` Jani Nikula
2016-03-07 3:48 ` Jonathan Corbet
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