Readthedocs.org: ReadtheDocs cannot parse tables in markdown

[wilsonyou]

Details

I build my file from github to readthedocs but found the tables in markdown files cannot be parsed.

Could you please give an effective way to solve the issue.

This is my project address：
https://github.com/wilsonyou/hopeone

this is location for the build

https://hopeone.readthedocs.io/en/latest/generating-addresses.html

If you can provide an easy-to-understand method to solve this problem, I would really appreciate.

[stsewd]

This is a problem with sphinx and markdown file, here you can see some solutions https://github.com/rtfd/recommonmark/issues/3 https://github.com/rtfd/recommonmark/issues/103, or maybe you can consider writing your docs using reStructuredText.

[wilsonyou]

Thank you for you suggestions. But I cannot get the issue solved.

I don't know what files are needed or how to configure the Admin in ReadtheDocS.

Some says that the setup.py is needed or the requirements.txt is needed. I am not sure how to handle this.

Could you help me on this ?

Thanks

[wilsonyou]

@stsewd
Thank you for you suggestions. But I cannot get the issue solved.

I don't know what files are needed or how to configure the Admin in ReadtheDocS.

Some says that the setup.py is needed or the requirements.txt is needed. I am not sure how to handle this.

Could you help me on this ?

Thanks

[stsewd]

You can use the admin interface of your project to specify a requirements.txt file or use a yaml file https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/yaml-config.html#requirements-file

[wilsonyou]

@stsewd

Thank you for your quick turnaround.

But I still cannot solve my issue.

The major issue is that I have many tables in md files, but these tables cannot be parsed. If you could give me a real example about what files are needed and how to configure these file, then I think I can figure out.

Thanks

[stsewd]

In the related issue, there is a suggestion about using https://github.com/ryanfox/sphinx-markdown-tables, you may want to read those instructions

[wilsonyou]

@ I have read these instructions and did as the guide told. But the tables are still not parsed
Could you check my projects?
https://hopeone.readthedocs.io/en/latest/generating-addresses.html
Thanks

[wilsonyou]

@stsewd
I have read these instructions and did as the guide told. But the tables are still not parsed
Could you check my project?
https://hopeone.readthedocs.io/en/latest/generating-addresses.html

Thanks

[stsewd]

I think you need to add a requirements.txt on your project with sphinx-markdown-tables as requirement.

[stsewd]

This should help too https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/specifying-dependencies.html

[wilsonyou]

@stsewd
Yes, I think you are right. A requirement.txt is needed. But I don't know how to configure the requirement.txt even I read the link you provided.

Could you please check my project and provide a reqirement.txt which is configured and ready to use?

Thank you for your support.

[wilsonyou]

@stsewd
If you could provide that requirement.txt file. Please send it to me
Email: [email protected]
BTW, I think readthedocs is a great website to host documentation but if table conversion is not supported, I would feel really disappointed.

[wilsonyou]

I read your documentation on the website. It seems that the backend will read the conf.py file by default. But in this way, the table conversion is not supported. So, I tried to configure the Advanced Setting, but got stuck in it. In Advanced Setting, when I clikc the option 'Install your project inside a virtualenv using setup.py install', I have to input the requirement.txt file below the option.
But now, I don't know how to configure the setup.py and requirement.txt files.

[stsewd]

You need to create a requirements.txt file with this content

The link to the docs explains how to setup rtd to use the requirements.txt file.

BTW, I think readthedocs is a great website to host documentation but if table conversion is not supported, I would feel really disappointed.

I think that is a problem with the sphinx extension that does the markdown supports, sphinx is mainly focused in reStructuredText, you also have mkdocs, which does support markdown.

BTW, your setup.py file doesn't seem to be right https://github.com/wilsonyou/hopeone/blob/master/setup.py. I'd recommend you to read a little about python packaging here https://packaging.python.org/guides/

[wilsonyou]

@stsewd
Thank you for your suggestion. But I have little programming experience, and I don't know how to get started with your suggested link. Could you help on how to configure my setup.py？

[stsewd]

I think you may not need a conf.py file, can you try having only the requirements.txt file?

[wilsonyou]

I just now tried to input the requirements.txt file without selecting the conf.py. But it did not work.

[wilsonyou]

@stsewd I just now tried to input the requirements.txt file without selecting the conf.py. But it did not work.

[stsewd]

You don't need to mock sphinx_markdown_tables https://github.com/wilsonyou/hopeone/blob/6dd3252af7646c964a37a573d8eb042e8d5901d7/conf.py#L27

[wilsonyou]

@stsewd Do you mean that I should delete the following codes?

from unittest.mock import MagicMock

class Mock(MagicMock):
@classmethod
def __getattr__(cls, name):
return MagicMock()

MOCK_MODULES = ['pygtk', 'gtk', 'gobject', 'argparse', 'numpy', 'pandas','sphinx_markdown_tables']
sys.modules.update((mod_name, Mock()) for mod_name in MOCK_MODULES)

[stsewd]

I'm not sure if your project needs to mock the other packages, but you only need to delete the sphinx_markdown_tables from that list

[wilsonyou]

Hi man, finally, it works! Thank you so much!

By the way, if you want to know anything about China, please do not hesitate to ask me.

I am a technical writer in Beijing, China.

If you come to China in the near future, please contact me, I must buy a dinner.

Phone number : [phone]
WeChat: 13671352506

[stsewd]

haha, glad that it works! I don't have plans to go to China in the near future, but who knows, I'll keep it in mind, thanks!

[anvithks]

Hi man, finally, it works! Thank you so much!

By the way, if you want to know anything about China, please do not hesitate to ask me.

I am a technical writer in Beijing, China.

If you come to China in the near future, please contact me, I must buy a dinner.

Phone number : [phone]
WeChat: 13671352506

@wilsonyou how did you manage to get this working?

[wilsonyou]

@anvithks Hi, you can refer to the following link : https://github.com/bumoproject/bumo-docs-cn

[anvithks]

@wilsonyou thank you. I managed to get it to work.