On Friday, March 26, 2021 at 7:03:59 AM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote:

> Imo, the rst3 command is burdened with features that almost nobody uses.
>

I'd like to emphasize how deeply misguided the old code was. It attempted 
to offer a gazillion features to turn outlines into literate programs. 
Instead, a simpler, more general approach is to let the user be responsible 
for content, letting rst3 handle the syntactic grunge of turning headlines 
into rST section references.

Anyone can understand what I've said. Nobody, myself included could 
possibly remember the old details.

Furthermore, rST/docutils now supports syntax coloring with pygments, so 
people an easily make the output of their programs look good, provided they 
are willing to add just a bit of rST markup. That markup will be simpler 
than any conceivable rst3 feature.

My focus now is to provide the simplest, most general rst3 options that 
will specify how to call docutils.

Edward

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