Tables with different styles

[rousku]

The table-body style applies to all tables in the document. So there is no way to have one table with body cells aligned to the left and another table were cell contents are aligned to the right.

[akrabat]

You may find https://akrabat.com/styling-rst2pdf-tables/ useful.

[rousku]

table_test.rst:

+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| Heading 1 | Heading 2 | Heading 3 |
+===========+===========+===========+
| a         | b         | c         |
|           |           |           |
| aa        |           |           |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| d         | e         | f         |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+

table_test.style:

styles:
    table:
        commands: []
            [VALIGN, [ 0, 0 ], [ -1, -1 ], MIDDLE ]
            [ROWBACKGROUNDS, [0, 0], [-1, -1], [white]]
            [LINEBELOW, [0, 0], [-1, 0], 0.5, black]
            [BOTTOMPADDING, [0, 1], [-1, -1], 5]
            [TOPPADDING, [0, 1], [-1, -1], 5]
            [ALIGN, [ 0, 0 ], [ -1, -1 ], RIGHT ]

rst2pdf -s table_test.style table_test.rst table_test.pdf, table_test.pdf:

The ALIGN command is not taking the effect of aligning the text in the table cells to the right.

If my table_style.style is instead:

styles:
    table:
        commands: []
            [VALIGN, [ 0, 0 ], [ -1, -1 ], MIDDLE ]
            [ROWBACKGROUNDS, [0, 0], [-1, -1], [white]]
            [LINEBELOW, [0, 0], [-1, 0], 0.5, black]
            [BOTTOMPADDING, [0, 1], [-1, -1], 5]
            [TOPPADDING, [0, 1], [-1, -1], 5]
            [ALIGN, [ 0, 0 ], [ -1, -1 ], RIGHT ]

    table-body:
        alignment: RIGHT

The output is:

EDIT:
$ rst2pdf --version
0.99

[akrabat]

In rst, the class directive applies to the next element. This makes it a pain to style elements within a table as you need to apply the class within the cell. For instance:

+----------+------------------+
|   Item   |      Value       |
+==========+==================+
|          | .. class:: right |
|          |                  |
| Widget 1 | 1.20             |
+----------+------------------+
|          | .. class:: right |
|          |                  |
| Widget 2 | 2.30             |
+----------+------------------+

To apply a style to nested element I imagine that we'd have to come up with a more complicated and extensible style system so you can do the CSS equivalent of mytable > table-body in the style file so that you could add the mytable class above the table definition and then apply styles to table-body.