On 2026-11-03 19:30:51 -0000 (-0000), bulger@baeri.org wrote:
ah, yes, thanks. I had already grabbed the code to try to look up available parameters, I'm not familiar with the .rst extension so I didn't look at them.
The official reStructuredText documentation from the Docutils project starts out describing it as, "an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax [...] readable and simple, yet powerful enough for non-trivial use."
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html
Basically it's modeled directly on popular plain-text E-mail/Usenet message conventions, and has historically been the format of choice for writing documentation in the Python programming language ecosystem (often augmented with special functionality from the Sphinx project).
-- Jeremy Stanley