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by timemachine 1676 days ago
The real WTF: restructured text.
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nicce 1676 days ago
It is widely used and offers more features than Markdown. It is much better for techinical documentation in many cases.
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usr1106 1676 days ago
What's wrong about that? Not that I would have made a deep analysis, but the Linux kernel developers did not that many years ago and chose rst.
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qilo 1676 days ago
Yeah. Didn't know GitHub can render reStructuredText.
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crazysim 1676 days ago
It can render mediawiki, textile, pod, org-mode, and a bunch of other text formats as well.
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