>> I'm just wondering, why markdown is being used for the built-in >> documentation as opposed to rst? I guess emergent convention?
For documenting packages the standard is Lexicon/Docile.jl which do use Markdown. >> Since sphinx is used to build the manual, I would have preferred to have >> the same formatting at least as an option. I was able to successfully >> reuse inline rst documentation in python projects to build parts of the >> manual, saving myself to rewrite good chunks of text. >> >> But I admit I'm partial to rst because of that (I use it everywhere I can). >> >> Is md maybe slightly shorter or has some advantage I don't immediately >> see? Easier/faster to parse? >> >>
