Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup

[Jani Nikula]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2016, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 01:16:45PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> Using rst we can produce decent HTML pages, and make them available at
>> [1], in context. You don't have to read that, but it will be a lot more
>> discoverable for other people, another important quality of good
>> documentation. And perhaps you don't have to tell people to go read it
>> so much.
>> 
>> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
>
> *sigh*, basically if I have to touch a browser its broken.

Hey, I specifically said *you* don't have to...

>> > Very much agreed, once a file is no longer readable with less or the
>> > text editor of your choice, it as good doesn't exist at all. So I very
>> > much worry about RST even supporting such heavy markup that the end
>> > result is unreadable.
>> 
>> The goal is to have the best of both worlds, keeping it pretty much
>> plain text, but adding just enough consistency in formatting that you
>> can generate other formats out of it. We don't have to and we shouldn't
>> go overboard with the markup.
>> 
>> Arguably you could call rst a "coding style" for plain text. We have
>> pretty uniform C code, I don't think it's unreasonable to have a little
>> bit of consistency in the plain text. And really, it's not much we're
>> asking.
>
> With some decidedly daft conventions though; see my email to Mauro.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center