Tables go off page in PDF

[uvidyadharan]

Describe the bug

context I am trying to generate a pdf of my sphinx documentation. I am using the xelatex engine. There are many tables in the markdown file I am using.

expectation I expect for the table to automatically be split into two pages.

bug Instead the table gets cut off after going into the table footer.

problem This is a problem for people using tables that want to make pdfs because they cannot use large tables.

Reproduce the bug

File in question: Managing-a-Smartphone-Robot-Controller.md

git clone https://github.com/uvidyadharan/ftcdocs.git
cd ftcdocs/docs
git switch myst
make latexpdf

Open ftcdocs.pdf, go to page 263

List your environment

myst-parser==0.18.0 Sphinx==5.1.0 WSL Ubuntu-20.04

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[chrisjsewell]

Hey @uvidyadharan, thanks for the feedback, however I fear that this may not be something that myst-parser itself can directly affect, since the conversion to LaTeX is handled upstream by Sphinx.

It would be good if you could/we could confirm if this is also an issue using sphinx's "built-in" restructuredtext (.rst) file format, i.e. like https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html#tables, and seeing if there is the same outcome. Then we can know whether to forward this issue on to sphinx

[uvidyadharan]

Thanks for the quick reply @chrisjsewell . I checked and you are correct. When I tried doing the same in an rst table the same problem came up as seen below. However when I looked more at it I realized that in rst there is a long table option for tables that breaks it up into multiple pages. Although it is too wide in some sections I believe that is something that can be configured such that it does not happen. I have added the result below.

[uvidyadharan]

Would there be anyway to do something similar to :class: longtable in MyST?