On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:36:06 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: >> ReST was another solution in search of a problem. > > I think the basic idea behind ReST is quite good, i.e. understanding as > markup various typographical conventions that make sense in plain text, > such as underlined headings, bullets, numbered paragraphs. > > Unfortunately it went overboard with a slew of cryptic codes for > footnotes, hyperlinks, etc. that nobody would naturally think to use in > a plain text document.
I use footnotes all the time[1] in plain text documents and emails. I don't think there's anything bizarre about it at all. [1] When I say "all the time", I actually mean occasionally. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
