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  pugworthy
  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 the odd new commands. And wishing for a WYSIWYG editor because you can't remember the commands or not sure what it will look like without the live render.It's a bit like saying, "Hey this QWERTY keyboard is nice, but what if it had keys for all the Cyrillic, Devanagari, Chinese, and Arabic characters too? Wouldn't that be great?" Well, yea. But you just put the hunt back in hunt and peck.
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  amai
  I would really like to see a comparison of all these tools/markup languages:- MyST- Pandoc- Quarkdown- Quarto- TypstQuarto 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.
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  evanb
  By the Standard Model of Physics Software you can edit Quarkdown in Atom to get Quarkup and change your Neutron Mail to Proton Mail, but it only works if you type with your left hand and create an Electron app and an anti-Neutrinos AI blogpost.
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  iamgioh
  Quarkdown 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.
• noelwelsh
  On a quick read of the docs I'm a bit worried Quarkdown doesn't have the right evaluation model for the job. Text layout typically iterates to a fixed point, because adjusting the layout of one part of the document can throw out layout at another part, require another layout pass and so on. Typst has the concept of context[1] for this. I didn't see anything in Quarkdown that seemed similar, though perhaps I missed it.I switched from pandoc / md / LaTex to Typst for my book[2], and have been very happy with it. Programming in a modern language is nice, and Typst is much faster than pandoc + LaTex.[1]: https://typst.app/docs/reference/context/[2]: https://functionalprogrammingstrategies.com/
• _the_inflator
  Quarkdown is a step in the right direction. One step closer to HTML.Tough call. I think Markdown is not an authoring tool at all. In fact if you read through the changelog of GitHub Markdown, you will read a very detailed critique of the shortcomings of MD.It isn’t a specification. This is MD’s biggest weakness as well as strength.## can be a subheading or heading level 2.How about an empty line between paragraphs or after headlines?After reading this I consider MD an idea. A fantastic idea but not a spec.
• slowmovintarget
  Org.Org is what you're looking for. Org Mode in Emacs, and all the org-* packages that make it so unbelievably useful. LaTeX integration, task management, scheduling, word processing, embedded images (if you must)... Org.
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  runningmike
  Nice! But in the Comparison should be MyST - https://mystmd.org/ This is the new markdown standard to be….
• nine_k
  As an SSG user, I prefer the cleanest markdown as input, and putting all the formatting details into the CSS. E.g. I don't need `.abstract`, the CSS will format the first paragraph as an abstract without me asking explicitly.OTOH I see this as a way to produce more rich self-contained documents. There's no CSS, but there's a bunch of predefined styling options. I can't help but see the early HTML in it. HTML 1 did not have colors and barely any formatting, comparable to Markdown. HTML 3 had stuff already like <center>, etc.
• FailMore
  I really like the docs idea. I think it’s great to automatically render the side menu.The prevalence of Markdown from agents made me work on something similar too. My Show HN for a similar cli + web based solution (https://sdocs.dev) was on the /show page a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633).Sdocs is cli -> instantly rendered on webI like the fact it doesn’t require you to install anything to get a great experience.Despite being in the browser, the content of SDocs rendered Markdown files remain local to you. SDoc urls contain your markdown document's content in compressed base64 in the url fragment (the bit after the `#`): https://sdocs.dev/#md=GzcFAMT...(this is the contents of your document)... The url fragment is never sent to the server (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/F...: "The fragment is not sent to the server when the URI is requested; it is processed by the client").The sdocs.dev webapp is purely a client side decoding and rendering engine for the content stored in the url fragment.This also means you can share your .md files privately by sharing the url.I’m working on a few new features at the moment:1. Commenting (so you can easily comment on a markdown file and feed that back to your agent)2. A powerful slides functionality
• maxloh
  So this is actually competing in the typesetting space, likely with Typst. Both aim to become a simpler alternative to LaTeX without that pain in the ass.I think they are missing an opportunity to fix a poor design decision in Markdown. Instead of **bold** and *italic*, it should be *bold* and _italic_. That extra asterisk really makes it inconvenient to edit Markdown on a phone or tablet. I hope they fix that in v3.
• hirako2000
  It's nice in that it extends markdown rather than reinventing a different syntax.But the point of markdown, is to simply, markdown. Everything beyond that is deemed superfluous and cumbersome as it would defeat the point. Just write things down.It's the right balance between plain text and latex and the rest.
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  spidermonkey23
  I was looking for something like this, but would love if it had CV formatted doc. I just want something easy to update, but easier to version control Vs docx.
• brockferocious
  I became a big LaTex fan (from my time studying Physics)... So glad to see people expanding on it. Nice work!
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  dhruv3006
  Wow I love this !I think we can have this as a plugin in https://voiden.md/
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  frizlab
  I don’t think adding things to markdown is a good way to go. Markdown is just a poor language, period. Alternatives like Asciidoc make much more sense IMHO.
• podviaznikov
  demos look super clean!I try to support multiple formats on my app: typst, mdx, marp, reveal, latex.i think it should be possible to add support for quark down toohttps://sublimated.com/docs/typst https://sublimated.com/docs/typst/demo/article.typ
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  sputknick
  The nice thing is that with LLMs using markdown we are getting a nice ecosystem for a universal method for communicating textual information. The negative is that Markdown is starting to look like the https://xkcd.com/927/ cartoon.
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  Aeroi
  how is it for converting streaming api responses from LLM's?