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Add to SafariWhen comparing reStructuredText vs HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the Slant community recommends HyperText Markup Language (HTML) for most people. In the question“What are the best markup languages?” HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is ranked 3rd while reStructuredText is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is:
Styling through CSS is declarative and powerful, but somewhat inadequate for print without expensive tools like Prince.
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Pros
Pro Human-readable
reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system.
Pro Technical documentation
Without any adjustments RST has many facilities for writing technical documentation (API docs, syntax highlighting code, embed code from source files).
Pro Parsing from Python
Python's docutils include a parser for RestructuredText.
Pro Extensible
Generators such as Sphinx allow you to define your own custom roles, directives and output generators.
Pro It's standardized
There's only one standard to adhere to - no "flavors".
Pro Large collections of themes available
Pro Styling via CSS
Styling through CSS is declarative and powerful, but somewhat inadequate for print without expensive tools like Prince.
Pro Natively understood by browsers
Natively understood by browsers, you can author and view HTML on virtually every computer without any additional software.
Pro Most universal and widely used markup language
Pro Simple
HTML is fairly simple for both humans and machines. It can be repetitive and burdensome to type, but less so than most other XML or SGML-derived formats.
Pro Simple interactivity through JavaScript
JavaScript code can be embedded directly into a HTML document.
Cons
Con Setup can be tedious
If you prefer Python to stay out of the way so that you can focus on the task you are doing, you will find that overall Python just asserts itself far to much.
Con Verbose
Tags can hide actual content.
