On Sun, Nov 09, 2025 at 06:54:16PM +0900, Masaharu Noguchi wrote:
> Sphinx LaTeX builder fails with the following error when it tries to
> turn the ASCII tables in f2fs.rst into nested longtables:
> 
>   Markup is unsupported in LaTeX:
>   filesystems/f2fs:: longtable does not support nesting a table.
> 
> Wrap the tables in literal code blocks so that Sphinx renders them as
> verbatim text instead. This prevents the LaTeX builder from attempting
> unsupported table nesting and fixes the pdfdocs build.
> 
> Akira Yokosawa pointed out that the in-development Sphinx 8.3 latex
> builder already handles these nested tables. I still want to fix the
> current documentation because Sphinx 8.3 is not released yet, and the
> LaTeX build on the stable 8.2.x series (which also requires
> "docutils<0.22" for now) remains broken without this change.

Acked-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>

When Sphinx >=8.3 becomes ubiquitous, we can revisit this and revert
it to restore nested tables.

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