upported nesting depth.


Explicit Markup
---------------

"Explicit markup" (:duref:`ref &lt;explicit-markup-blocks&gt;`) is used in reST for
most constructs that need special handling, such as footnotes,
specially-highlighted paragraphs, comments, and generic directives.

An explicit markup block begins with a line starting with ``..`` followed by
whitespace and is terminated by the next paragraph at the same level of
indentation.  (There needs to be a blank line between explicit markup and normal
paragra