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motivation to stick to standard format; closes #205
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## reStructuredText and Markdown

- Two of the most popular lightweight markup languages.
- reStructuredText (RST) has more features than Markdown but the choice is a matter of taste.
- There are (unfortunately) [many flavors of Markdown](https://github.com/jgm/CommonMark/wiki/Markdown-Flavors).

```markdown
# This is a section in Markdown This is a section in RST
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tables, links, ... tables, links, ...
```

- Two of the most popular lightweight markup languages.
- reStructuredText (RST) has more features than Markdown but the choice is a matter of taste.
- There are (unfortunately) [many flavors of Markdown](https://github.com/jgm/CommonMark/wiki/Markdown-Flavors).
- Motivation to stick to a standard text-based format: **They make it easier to move the documentation to other tools
which also expect a standard format, as the project/organization grows**.
- We will use [MyST](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
flavored Markdown in the {ref}`sphinx` episode and the
{ref}`gh-pages` example.
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