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I have never understood why Markdown has gotten so much attention over the last decade while ReStructured Text - which is a similar format but actually standard
by IgniteTheSun 5y ago
I have never understood why Markdown has gotten so much attention over the last decade while ReStructured Text - which is a similar format but actually standardized and more developed than Markdown - gets so little.
Tools like DocUtils and Sphinx allow one to do quite a lot with ReStructured Text, and I believe Pandoc can convert it to Markdown without any issues.
If you aren't familiar with it, a good hard look at ReStructured Text may be worth your time.
- charlieyu1 5y agoI have never used rest, took a look and feel that manual underlines for sections are very clunky. And tables, one of the parts that I think markdown isn’t doing well, rest isn’t really better
- gilcot 5y agoMaybe it has something to do with emergence and domination of plateforms like github? Just wondering…