From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/20] scripts/qapi/parser.py: improve doc comment indent handling
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:48:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8+aPwyZEu8k8XL7F6eWvdhdP1ZZpv+6ZZXZr5vH4Lfzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8lytgoh.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 08:27, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> How does
>
> @foo: bar
> baz
> @frob: gnu
> gnat
>
> behave?
The rST fragments would be:
bar
baz
gnu
gnat
So you get what rST does with that. We do actually have examples
of this in the existing QAPI doc comments. It ends up treating it
as a definition list where the term is 'bar' and the
definition is 'baz' (which I don't entirely understand, I was
expecting a block-quote). That renders sufficiently close to correct
that I hadn't noticed it.
It would be a fairly small change to determine the indent level by
looking for the first non-ws character on line 1 after the colon.
Since we have a fair amount of this style in the code and it's
as you say a natural-seeming thing to write that seems the best
thing. (If you really wanted to start the option documentation with
some rST that required an initial indent, probably because you're
writing a literal-text Examples section, then you'd need to use the
"nothing after the : on line 1, rST fragment begins on line 2 in
column 0" style. Which would be the most natural way to write
that literal text anyway.)
I guess at this point I'll potentially create work for myself
by drawing your attention to the rST syntax for field lists
and option lists:
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#field-lists
which are kind of similar to what we're doing with @foo: stuff
markup, and which handle indentation like this:
:Hello: This field has a short field name, so aligning the field
body with the first line is feasible.
:Number-of-African-swallows-required-to-carry-a-coconut: It would
be very difficult to align the field body with the left edge
of the first line. It may even be preferable not to begin the
body on the same line as the marker.
The differences to what I have implemented in this series are:
* indent of lines 2+ is determined by the indent of line 2, not 1
* lines 2+ must be indented, so anything that currently uses
"no indent, start in column 0" would need indenting. (This would
be a lot of change to our current docs text.)
* it doesn't say in the spec, but I guess that spaces between
the colon and start of line 1 text are not significant.
The advantage would be a bit more consistency with rST syntax
otherwise; the disadvantage is that we have a *lot* of text
that uses the "start in column 0" format, like this:
# @QCryptoBlockOptionsBase:
#
# The common options that apply to all full disk
# encryption formats
and we'd need to reindent it all. My view is that trying to
look more like rST indent isn't sufficiently useful to be
worth having to change all that.
> This is something people may actually write.
Indeed, they have :-)
thanks
-- PMM
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-10 19:49 [PATCH v5 00/20] Convert QAPI doc comments to generate rST instead of texinfo Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 01/20] qapi/migration.json: Fix indentation Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 02/20] qapi: Fix indentation, again Peter Maydell
2020-08-14 18:39 ` Richard Henderson
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 03/20] qapi/block-core.json: Fix nbd-server-start docs Peter Maydell
2020-08-14 18:39 ` Richard Henderson
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 04/20] qapi/qapi-schema.json: Put headers in their own doc-comment blocks Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 05/20] qapi/machine.json: Escape a literal '*' in doc comment Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 06/20] tests/qapi/doc-good.json: Prepare for qapi-doc Sphinx extension Peter Maydell
2020-09-04 8:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-04 12:17 ` Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 07/20] scripts/qapi: Move doc-comment whitespace stripping to doc.py Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 08/20] scripts/qapi/parser.py: improve doc comment indent handling Peter Maydell
2020-09-04 9:03 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-21 15:06 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-22 7:27 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-22 11:48 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2020-09-22 14:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-22 15:28 ` Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 09/20] docs/sphinx: Add new qapi-doc Sphinx extension Peter Maydell
2020-08-14 18:40 ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-04 12:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-21 18:06 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-22 11:42 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-24 13:25 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-24 16:30 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-25 5:51 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-04 14:44 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-04 14:52 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-21 16:50 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-22 11:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 10/20] docs/interop: Convert qemu-ga-ref to rST Peter Maydell
2020-09-04 13:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-04 13:18 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-21 15:30 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-22 12:00 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-22 12:58 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-22 14:13 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-22 14:21 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-22 14:42 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 11/20] docs/interop: Convert qemu-qmp-ref " Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 12/20] qapi: Use rST markup for literal blocks Peter Maydell
2020-09-04 13:02 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 13/20] qga/qapi-schema.json: Add some headings Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 14/20] scripts/qapi: Remove texinfo generation support Peter Maydell
2020-09-04 13:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-24 18:14 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-25 6:48 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 15/20] docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt: Update to new rST backend conventions Peter Maydell
2020-09-17 9:24 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 16/20] Makefile: Remove redundant Texinfo related rules Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 17/20] scripts/texi2pod: Delete unused script Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 18/20] Remove Texinfo related files from .gitignore and git.orderfile Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 19/20] configure: Drop texinfo requirement Peter Maydell
2020-08-10 19:50 ` [PATCH v5 20/20] Remove texinfo dependency from docker and CI configs Peter Maydell
2020-08-27 11:25 ` [PATCH v5 00/20] Convert QAPI doc comments to generate rST instead of texinfo Peter Maydell
2020-09-04 14:34 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-04 14:48 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-04 15:54 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-04 16:05 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-24 14:13 ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-24 14:49 ` Markus Armbruster
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