
On 10/16/2012 07:21 PM, Lee Passey wrote:
Because those are all too easy. I discovered an e-text that uses enough different textual structures that it may qualify as a good overall test case for any markup language.
If you believe that, you have a very limited horizon concerning textual structures. The text you selected contains very few of them. It is a far too simple text to serve as a realistic benchmark.
If ReST can accommodate all the requirements of 14668 then I would say it is a reasonably powerful markup language. If it can't, well, then not so much.
It can easily. All 3 of them.
The best reason I can think of for resisting this experiment is so as not to risk contradicting a deeply-held belief.
Then you should try and think harder. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org