docutils/rST vs direct html

Hello all,

This is my first post. I just joined because I was led here by the
instructions for getting admindocs working on django. I looked around,
followed some links, and think I learned a lot. But I do have a question.

My question is, why is rST any better than just putting the text in a text
editor and marking it up with html directly? Why would you chose to use rST
(or any 'lightweight markup language') instead? And I ask that in all
serious, trying to understand, as opposed to tying to cause controversy.


Thanks for enlightening this newby.

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