PDF title page has extra space after author (or authors) name (names)

[jfbu]

For example for 'manual':

I feel

would be nicer.

I don't know if this qualifies as bug. It shows more prominently in 'howto' case, because there is less vertical whitespace.

The cause is in this code from sphinxmanual.cls:

        \begin{tabular}[t]{c}
          \@author
        \end{tabular}

which is copied-pasted from standard \maketitle macro, but the original LaTeX article/book class does that in a center environment, and Sphinx does it in flushright. The tabular always adds (intercolumn, \tabcolsep) space at left and right, and this what is seen at right.