Summary:

Allow a single column simple table to be specified with something
like:

======= ..
heading
=======
data
data
data
=======


Blabbage:

We're generating some documents that have database-generated
tables, and a few of the tables have single columns.

We don't want to have to expand out the tables like

+---------+
| heading |
+---------+
| data    |
+---------+
| data    |
+---------+
| data    |
+---------+

because we often view the file in text form and feel the
simple table is more compact and presents more understandable
information in the same amount of screen space (a la
Tufte's "data ink").

Our workaround is not too bad -- just adding an extra column
with no data:

======= =
heading
======= =
data
data
data
======= =

This works well for us, at the expense of a slightly uglified
table when processed to html or latex.  It's a tradeoff we're
satisfied with, since everything is internal and the people
viewing the html are also the people viewing the text.

It would be nice though, for outside consumption, to trim off
the extra blank column, just so we don't have to answer questions
about if the column is supposed to be blank.

Our workaround will be to postprocess the html and latex output,
but that's brittle and a bit inelegant compared to the rest
of restructured text.
nky.

So, would it be possible to somehow indicate a single-column
table with markup similar to the following?  It is currently
recognized as neither a section heading nor a table.

======= ..
heading
=======
data
data
data
=======


Thanks,
Mark


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Mark Harrison
Pixar Animation Studios

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