Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

Re:Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system by nailer on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @08:47AM (#44169415)

LaTeX also has some bizarre defaults like bitmap fonts in a tool designed to allow people to create high quality typeset documents.

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Re:Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system by throwawaymaths on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:10AM (#44169661)

which is ironic considering at one time the appeal of LaTeX was "sane defaults". Don't get me wrong. The default choices were really the best choice at some point in the past. They just no longer are.

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Re:Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system by Akronymus on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:11PM (#44171596)

And latex is one of very few programs where changing defaults would fundamentally undermine its very purpose (being able to recreate documents no matter how old)

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Re:Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system by michal_h21 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @11:31AM (#44171122)

This was true maybe 20 years ago, before TeX engines that output directly to PDF were created. Today, the recommended engine is LuaLaTeX, and it defaults to OpenType fonts.

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Re:Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system by nailer on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:54PM (#44172071)

Thanks for updating me. That corresponds with my own timeline where I last tried it 20 years ago.

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