Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: docs: switch away from list-table

From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: jack@suse.cz, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu,
	Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: docs: switch away from list-table
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 15:34:09 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b1909f4c-9e07-abd7-89ee-c2e551f9dc5b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210902220854.198850-2-corbet@lwn.net>

Hi Jon,

On Thu,  2 Sep 2021 16:08:53 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> Commit 3a6541e97c03 (Add documentation about the orphan file feature) added
> a new document on orphan files, which is great.  But the use of
> "list-table" results in documents that are absolutely unreadable in their
> plain-text form.  Switch this file to the regular RST table format instead;
> the rendered (HTML) output is identical.

In the "list tables" section of doc-guide/sphinx.rst, the first paragraph
starts with the sentence:

    We recommend the use of list table formats.

Yes, the disadvantage of list tables is mentioned later in the paragraph:

    Compared to the ASCII-art they might not be as comfortable for readers
    of the text files.

, but I still see list-table is meant as the preferred format.

If you prefer the ASCII-art form for simple tables, you might need to
de-emphasize the above mentioned recommendation as well.

        Thanks, Akira