Re: [Docutils-develop] Proposal & patch for RST: "plain list"

[David G. <go...@py...>]

Jarno Elonen wrote:
 >> The HTML *does* rely on CSS.
 >
 > Practically yes, because (X)HTML cannot represent all the constructs
 > in docutils, but docutils should still try to use the closest
 > functional equivalent.

And it does.  If the result works to a user's satisfaction without a
stylesheet, great.  But it's unsupported, and only goes so far.
Changes to the code that improve the non-CSS rendering of generated
HTML may be accepted, but not at the expense of complicating the HTML
that requires CSS.

The supported (whatever that means ;-) use of the HTML generated by
Docutils is with stylesheets.

-- David Goodger