Restructured Text

For 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:

==============
Main Headline
==============
Isn’t this cool?

Minor Headline
————–
1) One
2) Two
- Cool
- Really cool
3) Three

Here’s a screenshot of the output as HTML:

Html

And here is the latex output viewed as PDF:

Latex

Pretty damn cool huh?


One Response to “Restructured Text”  

  1. 1 savvy

    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 :)

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