Re: [PATCH] tools: memory-model: add it to the Documentation body

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On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:52:05 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 
>> Em Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:17:01 -0400
>> Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 
>>>>> (4) I would argue that every occurence of
>>>>> A ->(some dependency) B should be replaced with fixed size font in the HTML
>>>>> results.  
>>>>
>>>> Just place those with ``A -> (some dependency)``. This will make them use
>>>> a fixed size font.  
>>>
>>> Ok, understood all these. I guess my point was all of these will need to be
>>> done to make this document useful from a ReST conversion standpoint. Until
>>> then it is probably just better off being plain text - since there are so
>>> many of those ``A -> (dep) B`` things.
> 
>> On a very quick look, it seems that, if we replace:
>>
>> 	(\S+\s->\S*\s\w+)
>>
>> by:
>> 	``\1``
>>
>>
>> On an editor that would allow to manually replace the regex (like kate),
>> most of those can be get.
>>
>> See patch enclosed.
> 
> Some time ago I considered the problem of converting this file to ReST 
> format.  But I gave up on the idea, because the necessary changes were 
> so widespread and the resulting text file would not be easily readable.
> 
> Replacing things of the form "A ->dep B" just scratches the surface.  
> That document teems with variable names, formulas, code extracts, and
> other things which would all need to be rendered in a different font
> style.  The density of the markup required to do this would be
> phenomenally high.
> 
> In my opinion it simply was not worthwhile.

+1 on keeping this and the other .txt files of LKMM intact.

        Thanks, Akira

> 
> Alan Stern
> 




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