Sphinx >= 1.3.0 breaks latex_mods (previous_spanning_row removed from the LaTeX builder)

[eudoxos]

mod_latex is not able to monkey-patch the latex writer starting with sphinx 1.3.0:

Exception occurred:
  File "/home/eudoxos/roro/vale-oman/roro2014/rep1/source/extensions/latex_mods.py", line 106, in depart_row
    if self.previous_spanning_row == 1:
AttributeError: DocTranslator instance has no attribute 'previous_spanning_row'

Searching the history revealed this changed in sphinx-doc/sphinx@5d96523f7d44612d6770c0f3be19555415f19f44.

[gregkh]

I'm hitting this as well, you can see this in our public repo at https://github.com/projectara/greybus-spec

[shivams]

I am getting this error too. Looks like the project needs updating according to the latest version of LaTeX. Has any body been able to fix this?

[jterrace]

If someone else wants to tackle this, I doubt it would be too difficult to fix, but I haven't had any time to work on it.

[rddaz2013]

In the old sphinx version it is in sphinx/writers/latex.py Line 277

self.previous_spanning_row = 0 self.previous_spanning_column = 0

in the new version it is delete because no usage in latex.py

[rddaz2013]

In the old sphinx version it is in sphinx/writers/latex.py Line 277

self.previous_spanning_row = 0 self.previous_spanning_column = 0

in the new version it is deleted because there is no usage in latex.py! it is a cleanup of unused definitions.

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https://github.com/rddaz2013/sphinxtr/tree/UpdatePython27