On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 12:19:25AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > 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. Looks like a pretty clear consensus thus far. Any objections to keeping these .txt for the time being? Thanx, Paul
