WikiPublisher | Issues / 00139

Summary: Multi-line table cells are broken
Type: Bug
Raised by
Date opened: Sunday, 12 July 2009
Description: The following wiki content can’t be processed any more into PDF format:

(:table border=1 :)
(:cellnr:)single line
(:cell:)first line\\
second line
(:cell:)first line\\
second line\\
third line
(:tableend:)

This used to work in the earlier versions, but is broken now. Pdflatex aborts with the following error message:

  ! Missing } inserted.
  <inserted text> 
                }
  l.81 first line\\s
                    econd line}&{\small
  ? 
  ! Emergency stop.
  <inserted text> 
                  }
  l.81 first line\\s
                    econd line}&{\small
  No pages of output.

Importance: 3
Proposed solution: This arose when we added support for simple cell colspan in advanced tables. This reveals the newline to L^AT_EX and it tries to interpret it as an end of row, and fails. While we work out a patch, the following works and produces the desired result:

(:table border=1 :)
(:cellnr:)single line
(:cell:)
first line\\
second line
(:cell:)
first line\\
second line\\
third line
(:tableend:)

Urgency: 3
Status: Closed
Resolution: The fix is to change cookbook/wikipublisher/latex/tables.php line 219 to read:

  if (preg_match('/^[^\n]+\n$/',$contents)) 
    $SimpleColspan = (!strstr($contents, '<newline'));

Note that such cells then cannot span multiple columns.

Fixed in version 2.2.13 released Sunday, 2 August 2009 (also fixes the problem of long simple cells not correctly wrapping).

Date closed: Sunday, 2 August 2009

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