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

From: Akira Yokosawa
Date: Sat May 29 2021 - 11:19:22 EST


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(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 25aa00c707b0..a05225056e08 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ latex_elements = {

# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
'preamble': '''
+ % Prevent column squeezing of tabulary.
+ \\setlength{\\tymin}{20em}
% Use some font with UTF-8 support with XeLaTeX
\\usepackage{fontspec}
\\setsansfont{DejaVu Sans}
--
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