reStructuredText as an alternative to Markdown

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Hi,

would it be possible to import and export text in reST-Format as an alternative to MD? reST is in some ways comparable to MD, but it is more powerful in certain areas, where MD is missing some features.

Information about reST can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText

It would be great if Manuscripts could use reST and selecting it under Preferences / Editing / Markup Format would be great. Also, exporting as reST in addition to Word, Markdown or LaTeX would be excellent, as this would open up publishing my work using tools like Sphinx (for publishing on websites, printed documents etc.). Sphinx expects reST as input.

Cheers,
Christoph

@chaas nice idea! I've logged this. Import support is very simple most likely (as we use as one of the import means pandoc which supports it). Export may need a bit more specialisation and I can't promise other things but that we'll do our best. As such I also can't promise we'll make it available amongst the markup formats but it certainly in principle makes sense there too (in the same way as Textile for instance, which we already support for importing but similarly not yet exporting).

@chaas thanks for the feature suggestion! We've implemented some basic reStructuredText support for import and export for the upcoming update 1.0.27.

Great, thank you. i will give it a try.

@chaas actually, just realised the export we didn't yet expose via the UI, it's available with the scripting API only. I can document that, but also perhaps more usefully, will also export it in the UI for 1.0.30