Right, we can compare it to the reST spec: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#document-structure https://docutils.sourceforge.io

Right, we can compare it to the reST spec: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#document-structure https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtex... From a very brief look, here's some things that probably aren't generally necessary (and aren't included in Markdown): Document structure, Bibliographic fields, complex footnotes and citations, directives, substitution definitions All of these increase the number of things I have to escape, as well as my cognitive load when writing documents. And that's before we talk about reST config settings! You could use a subset of reST, or you could just use Markdown!