Jean-François B.

Since [my last comment here from 2017](https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/2832#issuecomment-285893804), the situation has evolved and Sphinx users can style the tables to some extent via the configuration value [`latex_table_style`](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-latex_table_style). It is even possible...

If no objection, I think we can close this issue, perhaps to open a new one taking into account the 2025 state of Sphinx LaTeX.

Although I expect this to be non relevant here, let me mention in passing that file `sphinx/texinputs/LatinRules.xdy` although a text file, can not be UTF-8 encoded. It serves as source...

Is such situation documented? I mean by that, naturally, the ordering of hook rules is documented, but has the impact on existing legacy usage been illustrated with examples such as...

@u-fischer `\ShowHook{begindocument}` would have indeed facilitated my search: although I knew from the very start the problem was caused by ordering of things, this knowledge became secondary to finding out...

> The problem now is whether this design is appropriately explained to people who do not necessarily have the time to read dozens of pages. The "dozens of pages" bit...

If I am allowed to make a half-serious pedagogical suggestion to improve this reST Primer in our Docs: same as literals need two back ticks not one, hyperlinks are better...

I definitely belong to the category of the surprised users...

I had prepared some screenshots which I almost forgot to post: Currently with xelatex engine (and very similar with pdflatex engine, except that the bold Gamma 𝚪 in last displayed...

An alternative to XITS Math (which is now frozen and will not change, and was a fork of STIX fixing a number of problems) might be with [STIX Two Math](https://ctan.org/pkg/stix2-otf)....