Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add maintainers to the admin guide

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 07:38 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:56:50 -0800
> Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> > Does the boxing with the ======= blocks align properly?
> > It it really useful?  Is there another/better way?
> 
> Do you mean those?
> 
>   ===============================	================================
>   ``F:``	``drivers/net/``	all files in and below
> 					``drivers/net``
>   ``F:``	``drivers/net/*``	all files in ``drivers/net``,
> 					but not below
>   ``F:``	``*/net/*``		all files in "any top level
> 					directory" ``/net``
>   ===============================	================================

Yes.

> This is a table. We might instead use a literal block, like:
> 
> ::
> 
>   ``F:``	``drivers/net/``	all files in and below
> 					``drivers/net``
>   ``F:``	``drivers/net/*``	all files in ``drivers/net``,
> 					but not below
>   ``F:``	``*/net/*``		all files in "any top level
> 					directory" ``/net``
> 
> But the result looks uglier when generating LaTeX or HTML, as it won't
> unwrap the continuation lines of the field descriptions.
> 
> Another alternative would be to use ascii artwork, like:
> 
>  +------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
>  | ``F:``   	``drivers/net/``      |	all files in and below		 |
>  | 	    			      |	``drivers/net``			 |
>  +------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
>  | ``F:``   	``drivers/net/*``     |	all files in ``drivers/net``,    |
>  |	    			      |	but not below			 |
>  +------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
>  | ``F:``   	``*/net/*``	      |	all files in "any top level      |
>  |	    			      |	directory" ``/net``		 |
>  +------------------------------------+----------------------------------+

Isn't the ascii art is going to get odd looking
output after the sphinx conversion because of the
doubled quotes being converted to bold?

I suspect the table formatting just isn't necessary
and it could be paragraphed instead.