Another markup language that looks like RUNOFF from the 1970s. I used to use RUNOFF for my term papers.
Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
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#82According to the wiki, Quarkdown supports cross-references in the same document, but not cross-references across many documents.
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#83Quarkdown author and project lead here. I started Quarkdown as a uni research project and couldn't imagine what it would end up being 2 years later. Thanks for engaging! I'll try and respond to your comments.
Would you consider "fixing" the bold syntax on v3? I have always believed that instead of **bold** and *italic*, it should be *bold* and _italic_. That extra asterisk is a poor design decision in markdown. It really makes it inconvenient to edit Markdown on a phone or tablet.
It always bugs me that _underscore_ is the syntax for italics rather than underline.
I’m sure back in the old days of READMEs, long before markdown was a thing, the conventions were this:
/italics/
_underline_
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#84I guess yea I'm impressed, but to me the whole point of Markdown is that it's dirt simple. You can edit it and use it without any kind of GUI and have a pretty good idea what you are going to get. You can create it in VIM in a terminal, and trust what you did is going to look fine. Heck you can just look at the raw .md file and read it just fine. But then you start adding to it. Soon you find yourself looking up all…
As I'm writing a small markdown renderer, I find it difficult to even find a name for it, let alone get people to use it once it's ready. So I guess the ol' Markdown is too standard for a "plain markdown" editor to stand out today. Only tools that are polished and dare-I-say full of features beyond normal markdown can stand out from normal Markdown editors to make it into the front page of HN. Sort of natural selection I guess.
Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
#85Another markup language that looks like RUNOFF from the 1970s. I used to use RUNOFF for my term papers.
I'll take that as a compliment
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#86How does it replace Obsidian though? I somehow think the author does not fully understand that knowledge management systems are inherently interactive and need to handle queries like in databases because they are databases.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since it’s an upgrade of markdown, you should have called it "markup".
This sounds to me like it might benefit from some sort of "hypertext" functionality to allow for easy linking of documents
This is very interesting. I imagine the links of these documents to each other could be visualized as a web of some sort.
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#88Wait, we created the unholy unity of troff and markdown?
Kidding aside, that kind of misses the point of either.
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#89I would really like to see a comparison of all these tools/markup languages: - MyST - Pandoc - Quarkdown - Quarto - Typst Quarto and pandoc both use Pandoc Markdown (and so does https://www.zettlr.com/ ). But Quarkdown and Typst offer programmable markup languages like LaTeX (or HTML + Javascript). It seems the winner for the title official LaTeX successor is still not decided.
I used (and will continue to use) most of those. Quick rules of thumb: - markdown is .txt with just a tiny bit of syntactic sugar/syntax highlighting, and you can export it to pdf or html - quarto is markdown-but-I-want-to-execute-code-blocks-inside - typst is latex but modern, with 90% less cruft and 10% less functionality (academia, hating everything modern, will also hate you if you use typst) - pandoc is how you…
> (academia, hating everything modern, will also hate you if you use typst)
I chuckled. I'd love to try out typst when the time comes. But for writing a journal paper, it's still going to be latex.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going to work on a Quarkdown with even more Superpowers and a seamless UI/UX so you don't need to remember all the odd new commands. I shall call it Microsoft Word.
Since it’s an upgrade of markdown, you should have called it "markup".
Price accordingly.