From: Frank Mitchell <frankm@...>
Date: 2003-03-02T06:08:09+09:00
Subject: Re: STEP Structured Text Entry Processor

Just for comparison, Python is beginning to use a format called
reStructured Text, described here:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/#restructuredtext

One interesting bit is that it indicates section titles like this:

   This Is My Title
   ================

   This Is My Subtitle
   -------------------

   This Is My Sub-Subtitle
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

which a) only provides three levels (if I read it right), b) requires
changing the underline characters to move a section, and c) must be
pretty hard to parse, requiring one line of lookahead.  OTOH, it is more
human-readable.

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Frank Mitchell
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