Em Wed, 4 May 2016 11:34:08 +0200
Markus Heiser <markus.hei...@darmarit.de> escreveu:

> Hi all, (hi Jonathan, please take note of my offer below)
> 
> Am 03.05.2016 um 16:31 schrieb Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > So sounds like moving ahead with rst/sphinx is the option that should
> > allow us to address everyone's concerns eventually? Of course the
> > first one won't have it all (media seems really tricky), ...  
> 
> BTW: Mauro mentioned that ASCII-art tables are not diff-friendly ... 
> 
> Am 18.04.2016 um 13:16 schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
> <mche...@osg.samsung.com>:
> 
> > With that sense, the "List tables" format is also not good, as
> > one row addition would generate several hunks (one for each column
> > of the table), making harder to review the patch by just looking at
> > the diff.  
> 
> For this, I wrote the "flat-table" reST-directive, which adds 
> missing cells automatically:
> 
> doc:    
> http://return42.github.io/sphkerneldoc/articles/table_concerns.html#flat-table
> source: 
> https://github.com/return42/sphkerneldoc/blob/master/doc/extensions/rstFlatTable.py

Yeah, this should address the lack of a proper way to markup cell/row
spans, providing the additional bits for the tables we have at media.

Yet, there are some issues with table conversions. See below.

> 
> I used "flat-table" to migrate all DocBook-XML documents to reST. With this
> directive, I also managed to migrate the complete media book (no more TODOs)
> incl. the large tables like them from subdev-formats:
> 
> https://return42.github.io/sphkerneldoc/books/linux_tv/media/v4l/subdev-formats.html
> 
> (Rendering large tables is a general discussion which should not take place 
> in this MT)

Some tables, like the one here:
        
https://return42.github.io/sphkerneldoc/books/linux_tv/media/v4l/control.html

are truncated (tested with Mozilla and Chrome), and part of the information is
lost due to that.

Regards,
Mauro
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