Empty raw in a grid table

[Vladimír Marek]

Hi all,

I would like to ask if it is somehow possible to enforce an empty raw in
a grid table.

Simple example
+--------+-------------+
| text  | text text |
|          |                 |
|          |THIS        |
+--------+-------------+

and I would like to have:
text text
<empty visible raw>
THIS

If I left there empty line then in generated output (pdf) there was no
empty line.
How can I achieve this?

Thanks,
  Vladimir

[Jim Kennedy]

Hi Vladimir,

If you build your table like this it should work in pdf also:

.. list-table:: Simple Example
   :widths: 40 60
   :header-rows: 1

   * - head 1
     - head 2
   * - text
     - text text
   * -
     -
   * -
     - THIS

Further info here: https://sublime-and-sphinx-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tables.html#list-table-directive

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[Vladimír Marek]

Hi Jim,

thanks for the tip but unfortunately I'm bind to the grid format (using that structure I sent before).
In mean while I found that I can add a new line like this:

Simple example
+--------+-------------+
| text  | text text |
|          |                 |
|          | | THIS    |
+--------+-------------+

but it also generates a new line after the "THIS" which is something I really don't want :-(

V.

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[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 08/08/2022 à 15:52, Vladimír Marek a écrit :
> Hi Jim,
>
> thanks for the tip but unfortunately I'm bind to the grid format
> (using that structure I sent before).
> In mean while I found that I can add a new line like this:
> Simple example
> +--------+-------------+
> | text  | text text |
> |          |                 |
> |          | | THIS    |
> +--------+-------------+
>
> but it also generates a new line after the "THIS" which is something I
> really don't want :-(
>
> V.

I'm not sure what can force you to use this table format, but
this works for me, unless I have misunderstood the request:

+--------+-------------+
| text   |  text text  |
+--------+-------------+
|        |             |
+--------+-------------+
|        |     THIS    |
+--------+-------------+


Best,
Jean

[Vladimír Marek]

Hi Jean,

it's easy. The documentation which I need to update is written with the
grid format and I don't want to introduce there such a change.

Your suggestion adds a whole new raw into a table but I need to add a
new line just in text inside one cell ...

Regards,
  Vladimir

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 12/08/2022 à 08:04, Vladimír Marek a écrit :
> Hi Jean,
>
> it's easy. The documentation which I need to update is written with
> the grid format and I don't want to introduce there such a change.
>
> Your suggestion adds a whole new raw into a table but I need to add a
> new line just in text inside one cell ...

Well, for me a 'row' is a table row :-)

Try this:

+-----------+------------------+
|  text     | | text text      |
|           | |                |
|           | | THIS           |
+-----------+------------------+



See the documentation about "line blocks" here:
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html#lists-and-quote-like-blocks

[Vladimír Marek]

I tried that as well already but it adds empty line at the top and
bottom of whole text block which is something I don't want
I just want a simple one empty line between text :-)

[Steevie]

Hi,

On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 09:59:44 +0200, Vladimír Marek wrote:

> I tried that as well already but it adds empty line at the top and
> bottom of whole text block which is something I don't want I just want a
> simple one empty line between text :-)

untested but it should work:

+-----------+------------------+
|  text     | | text text      |
| \         | | \              |
|           | | THIS           |
+-----------+------------------+

(escape an empty space)

To add 2cents: I'd also suggest to switch to other, more maintainable types
of tables, csv-table:: being my favourite: It will take some time for the
conversion, but it'll save you lot of time with maintenance later.

HTH,
Stefano