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Mind explaining why? I like Markdown but would like to know what ReST does better.
by Poiesis 10y ago
Mind explaining why? I like Markdown but would like to know what ReST does better.
- has2k1 10y agoReST can be better extended without creating a variant of the markup language [1]. Extension support is first class [2], and it is by that means that a good number of the core features are implemented. [1] For example, github flavour, stackoverflow flavour, reddit flavour, ... [2] Roles and directives.
- catdog 10y agoOne large difference is that Markdown exclusively targets HTML as an output format where ReST tries to be format agnostic. If you only ever target HTML this might ease some things but not if you want html, man pages, pdfs, plain text, …
- eliben 10y agoReST is a whole multi-document system, as opposed to MD which is just the formatting (at least before you mix in the dozens of mutually incompatible extensions). ReST is a superset.