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The doc folder
- motivates to use light markup text, specifically restructuredText, over DOCX or ODT for documentation of software projects
- is an example documentation using rstdoc, a wrapper around Sphinx and Pandoc
For your project documenation a readme
- gives an overview of the documents: Files
- summaries dependencies between the documents: Dependencies