reStructuredText Markup Language

A reStructuredText Markup Language is a Lightweight Markup Language.

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Markdown Markup Language.
  • a WikiText Markup Language, such as MediaWiki markup.
• See: WikiText, HTML, RST.

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References

2009

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText
  • reStructuredText is a lightweight markup language intended to be highly readable in source format. Its formal name indicates that it is a "revised, reworked, and reinterpreted StructuredText."
  • reStructuredText is sometimes abbreviated as RST; while sometimes abbreviated as ReST or reST, this can create confusion with REST, an unrelated technology.
  • The reference parser is implemented as a component of the Docutils text processing framework in the Python programming language, but other parsers are available. It was a re-implementation and extension of the StructuredText and Setext lightweight markup systems,
  • reStructuredText is commonly used for technical documentation, for example, in documentation of Python libraries. However, reStructuredText is suitable for a wide range of texts.

2006

• http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
  • reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system. It is useful for in-line program documentation (such as Python docstrings), for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone documents. reStructuredText is designed for extensibility for specific application domains. The reStructuredText parser is a component of Docutils. reStructuredText is a revision and reinterpretation of the StructuredText and Setext lightweight markup systems.
  • The primary goal of reStructuredText is to define and implement a markup syntax for use in Python docstrings and other documentation domains, that is readable and simple, yet powerful enough for non-trivial use. The intended purpose of the markup is the conversion of reStructuredText documents into useful structured data formats.

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