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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:25:17 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To:     Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: memory-model: add it to the Documentation body
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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@joelfernandes.org> 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