Hi Jon,

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.

If you prefer the ASCII-art form for simple tables, you might need to
de-emphasize the above mentioned recommendation as well.

        Thanks, Akira