The reStructuredText markup language is part of the Python docutils project, and a complete reference can be found at the Docutils website: http://docutils.sourceforge.net. The docutils project also provides utilities for converting RST to formats like PDF, ODT, HTML, and LaTeX.
The basics can be grasped fairly quickly, so let's go through them:
- Paragraphs are created by leaving a blank line between blocks of text.
- Headings are created by underlining a single line of text with a non-alphanumeric symbol. The exact symbol doesn't matter; whichever one you use first will be treated as a level one heading for the rest of the document, whichever you use second as a level two, and so on. Conventionally, = is usually used for level ...
