Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST

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

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
> 
> asciidoc 0.8% installed
> markdown 0.4% installed
> rest2web 0.1% installed

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).

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

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