I don’t understand what this does that LaTeX does not, and though I haven’t checked I suspect the inverse is not the case
Is very slightly more concise syntax worth it?
Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
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Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#32How 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/
Also let's not forget that Quarto is the spiritual successor of the widely successful R Markdown ecosystem. By the same developers: https://quarto.org/docs/faq/#who-are-the-developers-of-quart...
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#33This, 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 may be familiar already, but does paged.js fit your bill?
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#34This 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.
You'll likely lose a lot of the ecosystem since a lot of stuff wouldn't expect such a syntax.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#35How 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
Yeah that's the immediate connection I got too.
I like the syntax.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#36Yes, any alternatives which invented their own syntax which is not markdown is just a waste of everything.
The base markdown is too primitive to use without extensions, so aren't most used markdowns actually invent their own syntax?
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#37Very cool, but CLI tools with a JVM language? :( I'd be much quicker to try this out with a static binary.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#38I wonder how much control this gives you. For example, drop-caps, kerning, text flow around images, etc.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#39This, 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…
The online editor is commercial. They have a github repository releasing Typst under an Apache 2.0 license for free. I installed it using cargo (Rust), and don't use the online editor.
Re: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
#40I've started using presenterm for markdown presentations. Given that markdown is just a format, a comprehensive comparison should find the tools using markdown to export to pdf and epub.