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		IshKebab on Aug 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I prefer rST to Markdown Markdown is definitely far more popular, but I see more book-length specification type documents written in Asciidoc. For example the RISC-V spec, or Ferrocene's Rust spec.

__mharrison__ on Aug 1, 2024 [–]

I've written and published books (both physical and ebooks) with rST, asciidoc, and md. No format is perfect, but of those three md works best for me.

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