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Re:Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system by behnamoh on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @10:47AM (#44170714)
when this tool has "FakeBold"[0] like Latex has, I'll make the switch.

[0]: https://x.com/OrganicGPT/status/1920202649481236745/photo/1

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Re:Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system by kzrdude on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:15PM (#44171630)
Is there something like that for Typst?
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Re:Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system by tempfile on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @01:04PM (#44172176)
What does that actually mean? The tweet is not very clear. Is it the bold in the header? What's special about it?
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Re:Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system by robinsonb5 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @01:36PM (#44172527)
I'm assuming it's emboldening text by thickening up the strokes instead of using a (possibly non-existent) bold variant of the font?
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