#4563: disable alpha and roman lists, fixes wrong formatting of contributor list.
diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
index 018f4ac..fefe1c1 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@
from docutils import nodes, utils
+# monkey-patch reST parser to disable alphabetic and roman enumerated lists
+from docutils.parsers.rst.states import Body
+Body.enum.converters['loweralpha'] = \
+ Body.enum.converters['upperalpha'] = \
+ Body.enum.converters['lowerroman'] = \
+ Body.enum.converters['upperroman'] = lambda x: None
+
+
def issue_role(typ, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
issue = utils.unescape(text)
text = 'issue ' + issue