Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:56:21AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > As I checked popularity of similar plain text formatters via popcon,
> >  
> >   http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch12.en.html#listoftoolstohigghtplaintextdata
... 
> The correct package to check for reStructuredText support is not
> ‘rest2web’ (a rather specialised tool to build a whole website,
> irrelevant for the purpose of this discussion), but ‘python-docutils’
> (the library support and generic tools for reST rendering).

Thanks. Web page updated.

python-docutils 2.0% installed
asciidoc        0.8% installed
markdown        0.4% installed
rest2web        0.1% installed

> How did you generate your statistics, and can you do so with the
> ‘python-docutils’ package for comparison?

(This is basically simple shell script to generate these numbers for
packages in debian-reference.  Intent is to provide user with some idea
for each package.  It is in debian-reference source.)

Osamu