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Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by pugworthy »

giwook wrote: post #40
pugworthy wrote: post #29

I guess yea I'm impressed, but to me the whole point of Markdown is that it's dirt simple. You can edit it and use it without any kind of GUI and have a pretty good idea what you are going to get. You can create it in VIM in a terminal, and trust what you did is going to look fine. Heck you can just look at the raw .md file and read it just fine. But then you start adding to it. Soon you find yourself looking up all…

Going to work on a Quarkdown with even more Superpowers and a seamless UI/UX so you don't need to remember all the odd new commands. I shall call it Microsoft Word.

See, that's the Markdown-Word spiral i was talking about...

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by stefanka »

runningmike wrote: post #3

Nice! But in the Comparison should be MyST - https://mystmd.org/ This is the new markdown standard to be….

Myst with Sphinx is great. I miss strong LSP support though—or at least I didn’t manage to get it run in helix. I built my blog with pydata-sphinx-theme and myst

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by kitchi »

0x3444ac53 wrote: post #28
revolvingthrow wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used (and will continue to use) most of those. Quick rules of thumb: - markdown is .txt with just a tiny bit of syntactic sugar/syntax highlighting, and you can export it to pdf or html - quarto is markdown-but-I-want-to-execute-code-blocks-inside - typst is latex but modern, with 90% less cruft and 10% less functionality (academia, hating everything modern, will also hate you if you use typst) - pandoc is how you…

I'm sorry, what exactly is the issue with typst?

No issues per se, but academic publishing has deep roots in the latex ecosystem. So templates from publishers are often not available in typst, or the publisher insists on a latex formatted file.

Often supervisors/professors etc will also resist using typst because of the cognitive overhead on their already oversubscribed time. Typst has about 40 years of history to overcome and that will take a long time to do.

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by iamgioh »

t-kalinowski wrote: post #38
iamgioh wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not familiar with Quarto, feel free to update the table in a PR

Memories are failable :) Here is the PR you merged June of last year, changing the file extension from `.qmd` to `.qd` after a discussion about Quarto: https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown/pull/90

Of course, just saying I'm not familiar with the language itself and its capabilities! :)

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by tasuki »

iamgioh wrote: post #31

Quarkdown author and project lead here. I started Quarkdown as a uni research project and couldn't imagine what it would end up being 2 years later. Thanks for engaging! I'll try and respond to your comments.

I read https://iamgio.eu/2025-12-10-accidentally-in-silicon-valley/ and it appears it worked out well – I'm happy for you!

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by ASalazarMX »

iamgioh wrote: post #31

Quarkdown author and project lead here. I started Quarkdown as a uni research project and couldn't imagine what it would end up being 2 years later. Thanks for engaging! I'll try and respond to your comments.

It strikes me as odd to add functions to a text format, given that even in GUI documents macros are usually avoided. Was Quarkdown designed for complex and repetitive documents?

Thank you for volunteering to field questions.

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by setopt »

giwook wrote: post #40
pugworthy wrote: post #29

I guess yea I'm impressed, but to me the whole point of Markdown is that it's dirt simple. You can edit it and use it without any kind of GUI and have a pretty good idea what you are going to get. You can create it in VIM in a terminal, and trust what you did is going to look fine. Heck you can just look at the raw .md file and read it just fine. But then you start adding to it. Soon you find yourself looking up all…

Going to work on a Quarkdown with even more Superpowers and a seamless UI/UX so you don't need to remember all the odd new commands. I shall call it Microsoft Word.

Since it’s an upgrade of markdown, you should have called it "markup".

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by 2001zhaozhao »

pugworthy wrote: post #29

I guess yea I'm impressed, but to me the whole point of Markdown is that it's dirt simple. You can edit it and use it without any kind of GUI and have a pretty good idea what you are going to get. You can create it in VIM in a terminal, and trust what you did is going to look fine. Heck you can just look at the raw .md file and read it just fine. But then you start adding to it. Soon you find yourself looking up all…

That's a good argument. However, Quarkdown is still a strict upgrade over typing latex directly or whatever, and you get more predictable results and better compatibility with LLM-assisted editing than with a GUI editor like Word.

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by dtj1123 »

setopt wrote: post #48
giwook wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Going to work on a Quarkdown with even more Superpowers and a seamless UI/UX so you don't need to remember all the odd new commands. I shall call it Microsoft Word.

Since it’s an upgrade of markdown, you should have called it "markup".

This sounds to me like it might benefit from some sort of "hypertext" functionality to allow for easy linking of documents
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