After looking at it for 1 minute, it seems that this is to markdown what CSS is to HTML.
How accurate is that?
Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Quarkdown was designed for control. Simple Markdown to define content, functions (LaTeX-style, but not macros!) for a declarative approach to document format and styling. Scripting came out naturally, so why not. Since v2 QD comes with a permission system that makes things safer.
Is it like CSS for HTML?
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#113Seems amazing, but more demos/examples would be nice, and installation instructions right on the homepage. Web editor would be great.
Seems to be written for jvm :(
The language spec is amazing and styling is slick.
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#114Wait, we created the unholy unity of troff and markdown? Kidding aside, that kind of misses the point of either.
When reinventing markdown turns into recreating roff.
I feel like a lot of people don't know about the power of the roff suites and that it is installed by default on a lot of systems.
> Kidding aside, that kind of misses the point of either.
I agree, in my view markdown is good because it is simple, if you want to use a proper markup language use roff.
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#115I really hate it when the recommended install method is curl-ing some script directly into a shell, often as root. Especially since it's pretty well known that the remote end can tell whether it's going to a script or a file.
Quarkdown's page has this:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quarkdown-labs/get-quarkdo... | sudo env "PATH=$PATH" bash
And… yuck. And that ".sh" is kind of annoying all by itself.
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#116Or just use Asciidoc...
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#117Soooo, Typst?
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#118how is it for converting streaming api responses from LLM's?
LLM's aren't too familiar with Quarkdown's extensions and functions yet. But handling base Markdown is definitely doable. Please keep me updated!
LLM's are an extension of us. We sometimes have to work to learn something new; so do LLM's. It's all in how we manage that process. Reifying information is the whole ball of wax, what separates different people's success rates using AI. AI is more surfboard than self-driving car; you don't just tell it which way to go.
I still can't get AI to code well in Lean 4, but I'm writing a parser for a language that doesn't exist. AI understands the language as well as I do.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Who types latex directly anymore these days?
I just typed my entire PhD thesis in latex earlier this year
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#120I would really like to see a comparison of all these tools/markup languages: - MyST - Pandoc - Quarkdown - Quarto - Typst Quarto and pandoc both use Pandoc Markdown (and so does https://www.zettlr.com/ ). But Quarkdown and Typst offer programmable markup languages like LaTeX (or HTML + Javascript). It seems the winner for the title official LaTeX successor is still not decided.
I am currently enjoying WYSIWYG with GNU TeXmacs for long-form or scientific text editing. Both, the concept and the tool, are amazingly capable and a breath of fresh air after all the LaTex, Markdown, Org s …
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