Restructured Text
Published March 5th, 2006 in Cool, SoftwareFor my school work, I’ve been using restructured text for my document formatting. I had never heard of it until, Nicholas Riley showed me some UIUC Computer Science webpages he had done with it. What surprised me most was how fluid and natural the markup is, for example here’s a headline and a list:
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Main Headline
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Isn’t this cool?Minor Headline
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1) One
2) Two
- Cool
- Really cool
3) Three
Here’s a screenshot of the output as HTML:

And here is the latex output viewed as PDF:

Pretty damn cool huh?
I recently used Markdown:
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus
i think its pretty much the same idea, and works the same, but maybe reST has more posibilities.
I’ll try it out next time and see for myself