Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Jemian, Pete R. via Tech-talk" <[email protected]> · Wed, 1 Jan 2020 22:00:08 +0000

Mark:

There's a Google group that might be able to answer this question: 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sphinx-users

I've posted your message there.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sphinx-users/FK_eOoaZlsQ

Pete

Mark Rivers via Tech-talk wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Thanks to Stuart Wilkins much of the EPICS areaDetector documentation 
> has been converted from raw HTML to ReST, using Sphinx to generate Web 
> pages on areadetector.github.io.
> 
>     .wy-table-responsive {
> 
>        overflow: visible !important;
> 
>     }
> 
> }Much of the documentation is in the form of large tables, and I would 
> like those to look as nice as possible.  Stuart created a 
> theme_override.css file that looks like this:
> 
> /* override table width restrictions */
> 
> @media screen and (min-width: 1024px) {
> 
>     .wy-table-responsive table td {
> 
>        /* !important prevents the common CSS stylesheets from overriding
> 
>           this as on RTD they are loaded after this stylesheet */
> 
>        white-space: normal !important;
> 
>     }
> 
> I am having an issue where the tables look good when I build and serve 
> the documents on my local machine, but they do not look as good on 
> github.io.  The problem is the maximum width of the page.
> 
> This is what a page looks like when I build and display on my local 
> machine, where it looks OK.  As I increase the width of the browser 
> window the page gets larger up to some width, and then stops changing.  
> When I change the min-width in the theme_override.css it does not seem 
> to make any difference.
> 
> This is what the same page looks like on areadetector.github.io.  I am 
> displaying it in the same browser session, just a different tab.  Note 
> that the page is much narrower, even though the browser window is the 
> same width.
> 
> My questions:
> 
> -Why is the .rst file being displayed differently on github.io versus my 
> local machine?  Both pages eventually stop growing wider as the browser 
> window width is increased, but that limit is much narrower on github.io 
> than on my local machine.
> 
> -Is there a setting I can change to make the page grow wider than the 
> current maximum as the browser window width is increased?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System