+The main problem with more sophisticated RST support is that ikiwiki turns
+preprocessor directives into raw HTML and reST hates inline HTML.
+inline relies on Markdown's handling of raw HTML, specifically
+that it doesn't wrap paragraph-level `<div>`s in `<p>` tags -- see
+[[todo/htmlvalidation]]. Other plugins might expect their output to be
+interpreted in certain ways too -- [[Joey]] mentions toggleable and fortune.
+
Is [prest][1] the perl version of the reST processor referred to in the text?
It seems to be reasonably well-maintained to me, and differences between it and
-"standard" reST are pretty minor (a fairly exhaustive list, taken from the
-prest docs, is at the end of this page).
+"standard" reST are pretty minor. A fairly exhaustive list, taken from the
+prest docs, follows:
[1]: http://search.cpan.org/~nodine/Text-Restructured-0.003024/
-In addition, reST appears to allow raw HTML pass-through with the `raw`
-directive, though I think a better solution would be expanding the format plugin
-interface. --Ethan
-
An exhaustive list of differences between prest and "standard" reST follows:
* fewer alternatives for bullet lists (only "+", "*" and "-")