[PATCH v3 14/33] docs: Create defs.rst.inc as a place to define substitutions

[Peter Maydell]

Rather than accumulating generally useful rST substitution
definitions in individual rST files, create a defs.rst.inc where we
can define these.  To start with it has the |qemu_system| definition
from qemu-block-drivers.rst.

Add a comment noting a pitfall where putting literal markup in the
definition of |qemu_system| makes it misrender manpage output; this
means the point-of-use must handle the literal markup (which is
almost always done by having it inside a parsed-literal block).

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
---
 Makefile                           |  1 +
 docs/conf.py                       |  6 ++++++
 docs/defs.rst.inc                  | 11 +++++++++++
 docs/system/qemu-block-drivers.rst |  2 --
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/defs.rst.inc

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7e60a435426..26bbd334438 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1052,6 +1052,7 @@ sphinxdocs: $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/devel/index.html \
 build-manual = $(call quiet-command,CONFDIR="$(qemu_confdir)" $(SPHINX_BUILD) 
$(if $(V),,-q) -W -b $2 -D version=$(VERSION) -D release="$(FULL_VERSION)" -d 
.doctrees/$1-$2 $(SRC_PATH)/docs/$1 $(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/$1 
,"SPHINX","$(MANUAL_BUILDDIR)/$1")
 # We assume all RST files in the manual's directory are used in it
 manual-deps = $(wildcard $(SRC_PATH)/docs/$1/*.rst) \
+              $(SRC_PATH)/docs/defs.rst.inc \
               $(SRC_PATH)/docs/$1/conf.py $(SRC_PATH)/docs/conf.py
 # Macro to write out the rule and dependencies for building manpages
 # Usage: $(call define-manpage-rule,manualname,manpage1 
manpage2...[,extradeps])
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 7588bf192ee..960043cb860 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -132,6 +132,12 @@ suppress_warnings = ["ref.option"]
 # style document building; our Makefile always sets the variable.
 confdir = os.getenv('CONFDIR', "/etc/qemu")
 rst_epilog = ".. |CONFDIR| replace:: ``" + confdir + "``\n"
+# We slurp in the defs.rst.inc and literally include it into rst_epilog,
+# because Sphinx's include:: directive doesn't work with absolute paths
+# and there isn't any one single relative path that will work for all
+# documents and for both via-make and direct sphinx-build invocation.
+with open(os.path.join(qemu_docdir, 'defs.rst.inc')) as f:
+    rst_epilog += f.read()
 
 # -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/defs.rst.inc b/docs/defs.rst.inc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ae80d2f35d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/defs.rst.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+..
+   Generally useful rST substitution definitions. This is included for
+   all rST files as part of the epilogue by docs/conf.py.  conf.py
+   also defines some dynamically generated substitutions like CONFDIR.
+
+   Note that |qemu_system| is intended to be used inside a parsed-literal
+   block: the definition must not include extra literal formatting with
+   ``..``: this works in the HTML output but the manpages will end up
+   misrendered with following normal text incorrectly in boldface.
+
+.. |qemu_system| replace:: qemu-system-x86_64
diff --git a/docs/system/qemu-block-drivers.rst 
b/docs/system/qemu-block-drivers.rst
index 7ca890ea23a..bd99d4fa8eb 100644
--- a/docs/system/qemu-block-drivers.rst
+++ b/docs/system/qemu-block-drivers.rst
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 QEMU block drivers reference
 ============================
 
-.. |qemu_system| replace:: qemu-system-x86_64
-
 Synopsis
 --------
 
-- 
2.20.1