OK, I'm making some progress with RST but I'm still stuck on numbered lists.  I don't *want* numbered lists.  My original text has paragraphs that begin with numbers (both Arabic and Roman) and I just want these to be formatted as paragraphs or block quotes with no <li> and <ol> tags.  When RST puts these in the lists are not in a nice vertical column but indent and outdent at odd points.  So again I don't want numbered lists here.  I just want my paragraphs left alone even when they are numbered.

Thoughts?

James Simmons