Re: [PATCH 0/5] Documentation: nfs: convert remaining files to ReST.

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Jan 17 2020 - 12:32:23 EST


On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 02:04:42 -0300
"Daniel W. S. Almeida" <dwlsalmeida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This series completes the conversion of Documentation/filesystems/nfs to ReST.

OK, I've made a quick pass through these. They are mostly OK, with a
couple of exceptions. One is that it has the "#." problem in enumerated
lists, which needs to be fixed as was done with the previous set.

And then there is:

> Note that I chose csv-table over list-table because csv files are easier
> to export from other software.

That leads to results that look like this:

> +Operations
> +==========
> +
> +.. csv-table::
> + :header: "Implementation status", "Operation", "REQ, REC, OPT or NMI", "Feature (REQ, REC or OPT)", "Definition"
> + :widths: auto
> + :delim: ;
> +
> + ;"ACCESS";"REQ";;"Section 18.1"
> + "I";"BACKCHANNEL_CTL";"REQ";;"Section 18.33"
> + "I";"BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION";"REQ";;"Section 18.34"
> + ;"CLOSE";"REQ";;"Section 18.2"
> + ;"COMMIT";"REQ";;"Section 18.3"
> + ;"CREATE";"REQ";;"Section 18.4"

...and that is essentially unreadable. Remember that the plain-text
format matters too, so we can't do it this way.

The original is in something fairly close to the RST multicell table
format already; it shouldn't be too hard to add the tweaks needed to make
sphinx happy...?

Thanks,

jon