Improve readability of tables

[esilvia]

Improve readability of tables

[esilvia]

Figured it out. Applying a global setting was a matter of adding \protected\def\sphinxstylethead{\textbf} to the preamble in conf.py.

Sphinx wraps the contents of the header row in \spinxstylethead, which by default replaces the font with a Sans Serif font (\textsf). Now it replaces it with a bold font.

Note that this won't apply to any tables that don't use the header row (separated by ========= instead of ----------), nor will it apply to tables over 30 rows long (like table 3). Large tables will need to be manually bolded.

[esilvia]

Upgrading ubuntu versions updated Sphinx and broke the previous fix as expected.
Had to change from...
\protected\def\sphinxstylethead{\textbf}
to...
\protected\def\sphinxstyletheadfamily{\bfseries}
I'm posting here because it took me a couple hours to figure this out.

[hobu]

Thanks for finding this.