Comments on the problems faced to pass from latex to reST: 1. A section can't be followed by a subsubsection. The following is valid Latex code: \section{Introduction} \subsubsection{About XML} But reST says: "Title level inconsistent" 2. It is not possible to highlight letters in a word: {\bf U}niform {\bf R}esource {\bf I}dentifiers 3. With \setcounter and \secnumdepth Latex allows to control which levels are numbered and which levels are shown in the table of contents. 4. \begin{quote}\begin{verbatim} ... \end{verbatim}\end{quote} is replaced by ::, but this construct does not indent the block.