Suggestion for small improvement to manual

Software darktable
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When I was reading the documentation on the supported file formats. (darktable user manual - supported file formats), it occurred tho me that somewhere else on the website it is mentioned that that some formats are explicitly not supported. Would it be an idea to add this to that page:

The following formats are explicitly not supported:

Apple ProRAW DNGs (iPhone)
CinemaDNG lossless (Blackmagic, some DJI, etc.) and lossy (Blackmagic)
DNG 1.7 using JPEG XL (Adobe enhanced, Samsung Expert RAW)
Fujifilm lossy RAFs
Nikon high efficiency NEFs
Phase One other than IIQ L
Sony ARW 4.0/5.0 downsized lossless (“M” for full-frame, “S” for full-frame & APS-C) and ARW 6.0 lossy

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Perhaps better add a link to that section, instead of adding the text itself?

iirc (you didn’t provide a link, and I don’t want to start digging through the whole site), the not supported formats are not supported by rawspeed/Libraw. Those are external libraries, so support can change independently of darktable. And having such information in two places is likely to cause confusion down the line: one list gets updated, the other is forgotten…

(The file extensions used by those formats are supported by darktable, afaik).

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With Google or any other search engine it takes less time to find the page than me writing this post, but here you are.

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