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Add to SafariWhen comparing reStructuredText vs WackoWiki Markup, the Slant community recommends reStructuredText for most people. In the question“What are the best markup languages?” reStructuredText is ranked 5th while WackoWiki Markup is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose reStructuredText is:
reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system.
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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 Human-readable
Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
Pro Allows adding custom elements
One can add actions, handlers and fromatters so it's not just about static markup
Pro Supports namespaces
It allows pages to be divided among "directories / namespaces" using forward slashes.
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.
