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Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by grahameb »

fmoralesc wrote: post #49
rendaw wrote: post #25

This, Typst, etc etc are primarily typesetting systems for papers . I would love alternatives to HTML or whatever, but I tried Typst too and it's very clear that the authors only really care about typesetting for papers and other long form prose. Stuff like forms, invoices, flyers, handouts, leaflets, business cards -- an afterthought, at best. Edit: Actually I was thinking of Sile not Typst, but I think the same app…

You can use typst locally and bypass the commercial bits. It is really easy to create different kinds of documents with it. I have been using it to create slides and handouts, and for that I already find it much easier to use than the alternatives.

Can you make slides and handouts from the same primary document? That'd save me an inordinate amount of time for some church use-cases.

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by schaefer »

davidpapermill wrote: post #153
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…

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I gave your splash page a look: no docs, no examples, no screenshots.

Your "free trial" is behind a sign-up wall. and I left.

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by N7lo4nl34akaoSN »

zero0529 wrote: post #139
coliveira wrote: post #133

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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Yet also incredible verbose and outdated

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Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by andai »

tinthedev wrote: post #102

I'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…

It's for me, as far as I can tell! I like making PDFs.

My ideas start in Obsidian (Markdown) and then I use pandoc and add a bunch of cursed inline LaTeX hacks to the Markdown for the final product.

I guess cursed hacks are part of any workflow, but I am definitely going to check this out.

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by maclong9 »

sixtyj wrote: post #88
360MustangScope wrote: post #78

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Ah yes, writing my notes down in css and html. My favorite! Seriously though, every time some new hotness comes along, you don’t really have to use it or even waste your time looking at it. Markdown will likely be here after all of its derivatives are long gone.

Gruber and Schwarz knew that in simplicity is a beauty. Basic markdown format is good enough. For specific cases, it depends what is the outcome - html, pdf… But hell are binary formats that are used for page layout - vendor lock for centuries. Backward compatibility? Forget about it. From this point of view people should stick to text based formats. Markdown, LaTex, Typst… you name it. Just use it :)

For me the only addition to markdown I usually enjoy is mathematical typesetting like on GitHub using the inline $$ syntax or the code blocks with the language set to `math`

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by jinay »

coherentpony wrote: post #150
jinay wrote: post #148

Please 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.

> Converting complex HTML pages with navigation, ads, and JavaScript into LLM-friendly plain text is both difficult and imprecise. 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.

Soon we'll start having a humans.txt format to account for this

https://xkcd.com/927/

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by tincholio »

svara wrote: post #158
cschmidt wrote: post #149

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Every conference has their own required LaTeX style file that must be used. Unless there is an automated way to convert these exactly, I don't see how LaTeX alternatives can be used.

I think that might be true at some maths and computer science meetings but is unheard of in other scientific fields.

It's the standard in most hard science fields. Also common in some humanities, too.

Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

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Post by Biganon »

SGML_ROCKSTAR wrote: post #154
cschmidt wrote: post #149

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Every conference has their own required LaTeX style file that must be used. Unless there is an automated way to convert these exactly, I don't see how LaTeX alternatives can be used.

Is LaTeX difficult to learn? An article stated something about how its syntax is inscrutable, from what memory will allow before the caffeine hits.

It's hell. You usually use an existing layout and adapt it to your needs, but even that can be counter intuitive.

Source : wrote my MLaw papers with it.

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