Paragraphs in longtable don't work in Latex output

[shimizukawa]

There is another problem when you have multiple paragraphs in one table cell, for example like this:

+----+----+
| 00 | X  |
+----+----+
| 01 | X  |
+----+----+
| 02 | P1 |
|    |    |
|    | P2 |
+----+----+
| 03 | X  |
+----+----+
| 04 | X  |
...
| 30 | X  |
+----+----+

This works in HTML, and in Latex as long as there are not over 30 rows. P1 and P2 are separate paragraphs on separate lines.

But above 30 rows, the latex writer switches from tabulary to longtable. For some reason that causes the paragraphs P1 and P2 to get merged onto the same line.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/1580
• Originally reported by: Peter Suter
• Originally created at: 2014-09-27T15:05:12.514

[shimizukawa]

From Peter Suter on 2014-09-29 08:48:21+00:00

The self.table.has_problematic mode of sphinx/writers/latex.py (i.e. changing colspec from l to p) seems to help. I'm not sure what the downsides are though.

Should if self.table: self.table.has_problematic = True be added to LaTeXTranslator.visit_paragraph?

Or should LaTeXTranslator.depart_table just be changed to always use p for self.table.longtable?

Or maybe there is a better solution?

tex.stackexchange has many more or less complicated suggestions for how to force line breaks in table cells...

[shimizukawa]

From Peter Suter on 2014-10-08 09:18:09+00:00

(As a workaround the .. tabularcolumns:: directive can be used to override the broken default colspec.)

[tk0miya]

Fixed at 2be21e3.
Thank you for reporting