Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system • Hacker News Board

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by cAtte_ » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

blenderob wrote: post #110

flenserboy wrote: post #108

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Pandoc is your friend for this and many other use cases.

Not sure I understand. I never said anything about my use cases. I was checking the accuracy of the comparison table. Did you mean to post that comment here or were you replying to another comment?

they were probably mentioning that, with pandoc, you can convert between HTML and PDF for any of these tools anyway

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by apatheticonion » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:02 PM UTC

I've achieved something similar by passing markdown into handlebars/ejs first before converting it to html

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by cAtte_ » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:06 PM UTC

blenderob wrote: post #106

jamesgill wrote: post #103

Instead of bolting an engine onto a bicycle to travel long distances, why not just use a motorcycle?

What's a good motorcycle for typesetting? Any recommendations?

Typst!

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by throwawaymaths » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:10 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #107

throwawaymaths wrote: post #104

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its for people who want latex but are mad that latex became c++

LaTeX also has some bizarre defaults like bitmap fonts in a tool designed to allow people to create high quality typeset documents.

which is ironic considering at one time the appeal of LaTeX was "sane defaults". Don't get me wrong. The default choices were really the best choice at some point in the past. They just no longer are.

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by blenderob » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:19 PM UTC

cAtte_ wrote: post #111

blenderob wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure I understand. I never said anything about my use cases. I was checking the accuracy of the comparison table. Did you mean to post that comment here or were you replying to another comment?

they were probably mentioning that, with pandoc, you can convert between HTML and PDF for any of these tools anyway

Ah! Thanks. Yeah Pandoc is great for conversions to HTML and PDF. It's my no. 1 tool for writing docs and generating multiple formats out of the docs.

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by genewitch » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:25 PM UTC

istjohn wrote: post #76

skwee357 wrote: post #51

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Whats the difference between them and running a headless chrome docker container?

WEasyPrint's Github: > From a technical point of view, WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF. It aims to support web standards for printing. WeasyPrint is free software made available under a BSD license. > It is based on various libraries but not on a full rendering engine like WebKit or Gecko. The CSS layout engine is written in Python, designed for pagination, and meant to…

Cool, not who you replied to but this is a cool idea, another way to archive pages. Gotta compare it to singlefile and headless chrome - I've been looking for a faster way to get a snapshot of a webpage via a chatbot (like in discord or matrix). Used to use Firefox headless, but large pages/slower sites would time out the api.

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by genewitch » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:26 PM UTC

codychan wrote: post #47

francislavoie wrote: post #37

Very cool, but CLI tools with a JVM language? :( I'd be much quicker to try this out with a static binary.

It was cool until I saw it needs gradlew to build and Java 17+ to be installed.

Hey, something other than Minecraft that requires Java > 16. Maybe just spigot and paperm.

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by rcarmo » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:27 PM UTC

I was a bit surprised to see Kotlin as the main language (I quite like it, but had to move away from JRE-based anything) I hope it can be built as a native binary...

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by drob518 » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:27 PM UTC

rmnclmnt wrote: post #96

rTX5CMRXIfFG wrote: post #91

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You know what, while you're at it, I might as well bring it up. How about XML? I haven't really tried writing large pieces of text in it but I am already seriously considering. All other alternatives are too complicated and have a learning curve that gets in the way of writing itself. With XML, I'd be able to define my own tags and run them by a parser later on to auto-generate indexable footnotes, and create my own…

Basically DocBook?

Exactly. Seems like we already invented that but it didn’t really catch fire.

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by WorldMaker » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 1:29 PM UTC

formerly_proven wrote: post #42

Looks kinda like restructuredtext, but with exactly half the dots and 100% more curly braces.

Which is where MyST [0] gets its structural cues. That's another alternative missing from the comparison table of this project, and an interesting one for how much it seems to be going for the science community that loves Jupyter notebooks.

[0] https://mystmd.org/