Re: 2015: reStructuredText implementations in other programming languages?

"Philipp A." <[email protected]>
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Skip Montanaro <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 22. Apr. 2015 um 15:21 Uhr:

> Hasn't Markdown kind of taken over the marked-up-text world these days? Or
> is that just how it appears since that's what Github supports?
>
> Skip
>

it certainly has taken over the *non-semantic* world.

reddit comments, readmes, forums, bug trackers.

but i real documents, rST’s flexibility is unparalleled. except for LaTeX,
which is a programming language and therefore has to be executed.

an example where rST is perfect:
http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/quickstart/#a-minimal-application

https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/docs/quickstart.rst

the roles :class:, :meth:, :file:, :command:, :option:, :exc:, :attr:, … all
 semantically define what the text is, and allow independent styling, links
to the official python docs, other project’s docs (e.g. werkzeug), and
other parts of the same docs.

the same can be applied to blocks. rST also knows citations, …

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