Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
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Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#2Would be interesting to see a compare and contrast between this and Typst, which has gotten a lot of attention recently.
Kinda surprising that it isn't mentioned in their feature comparison matrix at all.
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#3This is so powerful, it makes me wonder why they didn't just make a new markdowny syntax for Latex so they could reuse everything from the Latex ecosystem. A bit like what CoffeeScript was for JavaScript, I mean.
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#4I'm very excited to boot up and try this. I may have finally found what I need to replace my rickety pipeline of templates and pandoc conversions.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#5How is this different from Quarto [0]? Quite similar in name, same extension, appears the same aims, but at the minute less functionality.
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#6Typst is missing from comparison
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#7I'm very excited to boot up and try this. I may have finally found what I need to replace my rickety pipeline of templates and pandoc conversions.
I keep mine tidy in a docker image and use it on bunch of projects: https://github.com/majkinetor/mm-docs
As a comparison to scripting features of Quarkdown, above uses macros plugin which enables python scripting
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#8I like it for what it is, a layer on top of markdown. That said, the main usage of markdown for me is that it's just the content and it doesn't have any opinions on the layout let alone logic.
I can add those with the use of css/js for web and interpreters and themes for print/non web.
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#9I would like to have a compiled demo PDF available for download, along with a direct comparison of the same paper created in LaTeX. I would like to see the differences both on screen and in print.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#10Nice! Any plans for epub?