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That's why these things don't go anywhere. If I need to write formatting details, it is better to use LaTeX which is a well-tested and stable language that will last for another 30 years.
Yet also incredible verbose and outdated
Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
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Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#142I'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
#143I'm not quite sure who this is for. Markdown is for keeping things simple. There's plenty of of "proper" markup languages and full programming languages to actually write code in. Why do we need a hybrid program like this, which is not as simple as pure markup, and is not as powerful as a proper templating language? I personally just run markdown -> HTML/CSS -> python templating (Jinja or something) -> PDF/HTML As a…
This is for academic and publication journals. Which is why you see Typst it's strongest competitor in the Comparison Chart.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#144I'm not quite sure who this is for. Markdown is for keeping things simple. There's plenty of of "proper" markup languages and full programming languages to actually write code in. Why do we need a hybrid program like this, which is not as simple as pure markup, and is not as powerful as a proper templating language? I personally just run markdown -> HTML/CSS -> python templating (Jinja or something) -> PDF/HTML As a…
its for people who want latex but are mad that latex became c++
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Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#145I'm not quite sure who this is for. Markdown is for keeping things simple. There's plenty of of "proper" markup languages and full programming languages to actually write code in. Why do we need a hybrid program like this, which is not as simple as pure markup, and is not as powerful as a proper templating language? I personally just run markdown -> HTML/CSS -> python templating (Jinja or something) -> PDF/HTML As a…
That's why these things don't go anywhere. If I need to write formatting details, it is better to use LaTeX which is a well-tested and stable language that will last for another 30 years.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
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#148I'd love to see how far I can take this by giving it to an LLM and asking it to format for me with Quarkdown.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#149I'm not quite sure who this is for. Markdown is for keeping things simple. There's plenty of of "proper" markup languages and full programming languages to actually write code in. Why do we need a hybrid program like this, which is not as simple as pure markup, and is not as powerful as a proper templating language? I personally just run markdown -> HTML/CSS -> python templating (Jinja or something) -> PDF/HTML As a…
This is for academic and publication journals. Which is why you see Typst it's strongest competitor in the Comparison Chart.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#150Please add an llms.txt file! https://llmstxt.org/ I'd love to see how far I can take this by giving it to an LLM and asking it to format for me with Quarkdown.
Oh my god. It just occurred to me that LLMs may have a better experience “browsing the internet” than humans do.
That is so tragically depressing.