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help pane: use `docstring-to-markdown` extension system for epytext handling

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Since Sep 30, 2025.

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Description

from @seeM

docstring-to-markdown (which we use in our Help server) v0.17 introduced a simple extension system that we may want to use for our Epytext handling

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