I had the same gripes with RST. Then I found Asciidoc(tor) and never looked back. Asciidoc is as easy to learn and use as Markdown and more powerful than RST. B

I had the same gripes with RST. Then I found Asciidoc(tor) and never looked back. Asciidoc is as easy to learn and use as Markdown and more powerful than RST. Best combined with Antora, Asciidoc's answer to Sphinx.