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Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by iamgioh »

looneysquash wrote: post #68
pugworthy wrote: post #29

I 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…

To me, one of the big features of markdown is it's half WYSIWYG. By that I mean, the basics reuse the way we faked formatting to do real formatting. The input is (usually) perfectly readable on its own. Even if you don't know (or remember) how to author a markdown file, you can probably still read it just fine. The tables still look like tables. The paragraphs are just paragraphs. I do still have to look up how to do…

That’s exactly why I built Quarkdown. Flat learning curve for basic formatting, powerful customizations for the rest. Spot on!

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by iamgioh »

franciscop wrote: post #84
pugworthy wrote: post #29

I 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 selecti…

That’s truly one of the best compliments I’ve ever received along my dev journey. Thank you.

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by drfloyd51 »

iamgioh wrote: post #77
ASalazarMX wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It strikes me as odd to add functions to a text format, given that even in GUI documents macros are usually avoided. Was Quarkdown designed for complex and repetitive documents? Thank you for volunteering to field questions.

Quarkdown was designed for control. Simple Markdown to define content, functions (LaTeX-style, but not macros!) for a declarative approach to document format and styling. Scripting came out naturally, so why not. Since v2 QD comes with a permission system that makes things safer.

> why not?

I wonder.

> Since v2 QD comes with a permission system that makes things safer.

That’s why not.

You got your JavaScript in my HTML.

Seriously though… it might be a useful feature. Or it could kill your product’s focus. Sincerely, good luck.

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by iamgioh »

schaefer wrote: post #82

According to the wiki, Quarkdown supports cross-references in the same document, but not cross-references across many documents.

The wiki explains Quarkdown’s concept of subdocuments. A subdocument gets created when linking to another Quarkdown/Markdown file and populates a graph. Subdocuments inherit the linker’s properties but are then independent sandboxes that get compiled independently.

A cross-subdocument cross-reference is such a niche use case that I don’t feel like it should break this design choice.

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by franciscop »

iamgioh wrote: post #92
franciscop wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 selecti…

That’s truly one of the best compliments I’ve ever received along my dev journey. Thank you.

I was just reflecting on what I saw/thought! But sure, take it as a compliment, the website and branding are amazing, I'm (positively) jealous of how good they reflect on the product, congrats.

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by Cadwhisker »

hnlmorg wrote: post #83
maxloh wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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_ *bold*

My /usr/bin/ folder wants to know which bit gets italicised :)

Re: Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

2001zhaozhao wrote: post #49
pugworthy wrote: post #29

I 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…

That's a good argument. However, Quarkdown is still a strict upgrade over typing latex directly or whatever, and you get more predictable results and better compatibility with LLM-assisted editing than with a GUI editor like Word.

Who types latex directly anymore these days?
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