On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 04:53:17PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > It wasn't entirely uncommon, but that's not really the point. The > > Problem is all the weird ".." or "::" annotations that really kill > > the flow, or things like "|copy|" that have no reason to exist. > > This sounds sort of like "my markup is good, yours is bad", honestly. If > somebody were trying to add bracketed headings to a new document, I > suspect we'd get similar complaints. Not really. It is a "less markup is better". > The markup can certainly be toned down. If you don't like |copy|, it can > just as easily remain "(c)" or become ©, or just go away entirely. That > would get rid of the ".. include:: <isonum.txt>" line too. I would > happily make a rule that we don't bother with markup like |copy| > anywhere in the kernel docs. That is a good start. > The SPDX line is supposed to exist in all files, of course. No problem with that. I'll happily take a SPDX patch any time. > If Mauro does that, can you live with "::" to mark a literal block? It > doesn't seem like a whole lot of noise...? That is in fact one of my favourite pet pevees with the whole RST thing.
