Typst is missing from comparison
Is this standalone, as in: an actual file format people can use? From their website it looks like it won't work without using their service or hosting something yourself?
Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
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#13How is this different from Quarto [0]? Quite similar in name, same extension, appears the same aims, but at the minute less functionality. [0] https://quarto.org/
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#14If the LLM's are starting to output Quarkdown by default - even just one provider (like OpenAI), this will catch on like wildfire. The limitations of Markdown is getting a bit old.
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#15Yes, any alternatives which invented their own syntax which is not markdown is just a waste of everything.
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#16How is this different from Quarto [0]? Quite similar in name, same extension, appears the same aims, but at the minute less functionality. [0] https://quarto.org/
I guess that the similarity of the names come from different places, and in this case might be a remembrance of QuarkXPress. It's convergent evolution! :D
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#17Are there fexprs too? I.e. lambdas that dont evaluate their arguments eagerly but wait until explicit evaluation?
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#18This looks very interesting and more approachable than Typst.
As some who uses headless chrome to turn html into pdf (for invoices), I have been looking for something simpler and faster.
I tried typst, but it felt messy to me. I wonder if quarkdown offers more streamlined experience
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#19very nice and would be cool for scientific publishing, but without the publishers (or community) offering templates it'll never fly
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#20Typst is missing from comparison
Is this standalone, as in: an actual file format people can use? From their website it looks like it won't work without using their service or hosting something yourself?
Yes, there is a standalone compiler for typst that you can use offline for free. Source code is here https://github.com/typst/typst/