Sadly I don’t think rst offers that ability… the table styling options are rather limited. That said, if you’re rendering to HTML, you could add a custom stylesheet with a css rule such as: table.right-align-right-col td:last-child { text-align: right } and then add the directive: .. rst-class:: right-align-right-col right above your table in the rst … Read more
This is not the specific code you need, just a demo of how to work with BeautifulSoup. It finds the table who’s id is “Table1” and gets all of its tr elements. html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() bs = BeautifulSoup(html) table = bs.find(lambda tag: tag.name==’table’ and tag.has_attr(‘id’) and tag[‘id’]==”Table1″) rows = table.findAll(lambda tag: tag.name==’tr’)
\vert for the pipe. Forward slashes seem to work fine for me unescaped when exporting both to HTML and PDF.
p column and \parbox also works: \usepackage{multirow} \begin{document} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|p{1.5cm}|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline \multirow{2}{*}{\parbox{1.5cm}{Long text to break}} & Thing & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Thing 2} & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Thing 3} \\ \cline{2-6} & sth 1 & sth 1 & sth 2 & sth 1 & sth 2 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{document}
If you save it into a trace table; you can get the data in a table in SQL Server which will let you manipulate it to your hearts content; including dumping it out to CSV if still required. The text data column is fully represented in the table. If you choose Save → Trace Table. … Read more
Use p{width} column specifier: e.g. \begin{tabular}{ l p{10cm} } will put column’s content into 10cm-wide parbox, and the text will be properly broken to several lines, like in normal paragraph. You can also use tabular* environment to specify width for the entire table.
Use the p column descriptor: Change \begin{tabular}{lll} to \begin{tabular}{llp{5cm}} To explicitly insert line-breaks: CCCCCCCC & DDDD & \parbox{5cm}{Betty Botter Thought: \\ If I Put This Bitter Butter in My Batter it Will Make My Batter Bitter}
\usepackage{array} in the preamble then this: \begin{tabular}{| >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1in} | >{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1in} |} note that the “m” for fixed with column is provided by the array package, and will give you vertical centering (if you don’t want this just go back to “p”
You will need to devise an algorithm to extract the data in a usable format. Regardless of which PDF library you use, you will need to do this. Characters and graphics are drawn by a series of stateful drawing operations, i.e. move to this position on the screen and draw the glyph for character ‘c’. … Read more
I’ve read this question long time ago, and finished writing my own pretty-printer for tables: tabulate. My use case is: I want a one-liner most of the time which is smart enough to figure the best formatting for me and can output different plain-text formats Given your example, grid is probably the most similar output … Read more