[Docutils-users] comments vs. directives

On 2025-10-09, Schimon Jehudah via Docutils-users wrote:
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>> >> The preamble seems to use no standard but a home-grown syntax that
>> >> looks confusingly similar to reStructuredtext directives.  

>> > How so?  

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Steps to find out why I call the current Rivista metadata syntax 
"confusingly similar" to Docutils directives:

* create a file containing

    .. title: My simple example

    .. title:: My simple example

* convert with rst2xml to see how the two statements are interpreted by
  the docutils "rst" parser.
  
* Optionally repeat with

    .. author: My Lin

    .. author:: My Lin

* Optionally repeat with

    .. date: 2025-10-09

    .. date: 2025-10-09


Günter