>>>>> On Mon, 04 Jan 2021, Tim Harder wrote:

> In terms of choice, I'd personally choose reStructuredText since that
> generally plugs into python easier via docutils/sphinx (currently used
> for pkgcore's man/html conversion), but am open to discussion of
> alternatives such as markdown.

About reStructuredText vs Markdown:
- ReST syntax is more complete and better standardised.
- Markdown uses HTML as extension language, which is fine when
  converting to HTML but makes conversion to other formats more
  difficult.
- Trailing whitespace as part of Markdown's syntax is problematic
  (and the current version of app-emacs/ebuild-mode removes it).
- We already use ReST for some of our documentation, like GLEPs.

Ulrich

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