Implements the reST flat-table directive.
The ``flat-table`` is a double-stage list similar to the ``list-table`` with
some additional features:
* column-span: with the role ``cspan`` a cell can be extended through
additional columns
* row-span: with the role ``rspan`` a cell can be extended through
additional rows
* auto span rightmost cell of a table row over the missing cells on the right
side of that table-row. With Option ``:fill-cells:`` this behavior can
changed from *auto span* to *auto fill*, which automaticly inserts (empty)
list tables
The *list tables* formats are double stage lists. Compared to the
ASCII-art they migth be less comfortable for readers of the
text-files. Their advantage is, that they are easy to create/modify
and that the diff of a modification is much more meaningfull, because
it is limited to the modified content.
The initial implementation was taken from the sphkerneldoc project [1]
[1] https://github.com/return42/sphkerneldoc/commits/master/scripts/site-python/linuxdoc/rstFlatTable.py
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
[jc: fixed typos and misspellings in the docs]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Markus Heiser