Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> writes: [Adding Mauro] > On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:08:53 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >> Commit 3a6541e97c03 (Add documentation about the orphan file feature) added >> a new document on orphan files, which is great. But the use of >> "list-table" results in documents that are absolutely unreadable in their >> plain-text form. Switch this file to the regular RST table format instead; >> the rendered (HTML) output is identical. > > In the "list tables" section of doc-guide/sphinx.rst, the first paragraph > starts with the sentence: > > We recommend the use of list table formats. > > Yes, the disadvantage of list tables is mentioned later in the paragraph: > > Compared to the ASCII-art they might not be as comfortable for readers > of the text files. > > , but I still see list-table is meant as the preferred format. Interesting...that is not at all my memory of the discussions we had at that time. There was a lot of pushback against anything that makes the RST files less readable - still is, if certain people join the conversation. Tables were one of the early flash points. Mauro, you added that text; do you remember things differently? Do you feel we should retain that recommendation? Thanks, jon
