Re: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:

>   I would prefer Restructured Text, for the simple reason that it has an
> actual specification with a fairly complete description of its syntax
> and semantics.  In constrast, I've never been able to find any useful
> documentation of Markdown beyond "what /usr/bin/markdown does".  Having
> a decent spec makes it a lot easier to implement alternate parsers or to
> understand why the canonical parser is doing an unexpected thing with
> your input.

+1

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