On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 09:08:55AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > - use *foo* (for italics) or **foo** (for bold) instead of _foo_; That's daft, and also you're wrong. The normal convention is: /italic/ *bold* _underlined_ > :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst <serial_console>` That seems to work, as in 'gf' doesn't get confused by the spurious characters attached. Is there any way to enforce that? > - if you have something that you want to use a monotonic font on > PDF/LaTeX/HTML, use ``foo``. Bit weird, somewhere in the typewriter age they invented the " symbol so we didn't have to type double quotes anymore. > - if you use special characters like '*' in the middle of the text > (outsize a literal block), prepend with a \ in order to escape > parsing it. That's a bit inconvenient I suppose. > Btw, a lot of editors recognize ReST files and are capable of > parsing the ReST tags while displaying the file, including vim > and emacs, using different colors and/or bold to display those tags. > So, even for text-editing, converting to ReST brings improvements. Doesn't seem to really work though; if I open Documentation/development-process/1.Intro.rst the :ref:s at the start of the document don't work with the regular 'follow-ref' key combo of ^]. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html