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How is this different from Quarto [0]? Quite similar in name, same extension, appears the same aims, but at the minute less functionality. [0] https://quarto.o

How is this different from Quarto [0]? Quite similar in name, same extension, appears the same aims, but at the minute less functionality. [0] https://quarto.org/ https://quarto.org/

pinoy420 1y ago
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tecleandor 1y ago
I guess that the similarity of the names come from different places, and in this case might be a remembrance of QuarkXPress. It's convergent evolution! :D
- jbverschoor 1y ago
  Yeah that's the immediate connection I got too. I like the syntax.
- zelphirkalt 1y ago
  I guessed the name derived as follows: Quarks as the smallest particles, a view in most detail, the building blocks of things. Typesetting as the lowest level of abstraction for creating a document, "down" from Markdown.
- deleted 1y ago
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- TacticalCoder 1y ago
  People may not know it but at some point in the nineties you'd enter a bookstore and 95%+ of all the books and magazines were typeset using QuarkXPress. Then Adobe's InDesign showed up in 1999 and things began to change. FWIW I both wrote and typeset books myself (for a traditional publisher): I did most of them using QuarkXPress but I managed to sneak one I made with LaTeX (it was a hard sell to the publisher / printing press guys who were only ever using QuarkXPress). Also I was forced to heavily modify LaTeX templates to match exactly the one the publisher was using with QuarkXPress. So yup when I read "Quarkdown is a modern Markdown-based typetting system" the first thing I think about is QuarkXPress: great memories of MacOS (8? then 9?, pre OS X for sure) and my Sony Trinitron monitor.
  - hypertexthero 1y ago
    QuarkXpress for typesetting, Photoshop for painting pixels, and Macromedia Freehand for turning scanned drawings into vector graphics. Was still using these in the early 2000s. Good times. https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/american-overseas-school-of-rome-print-work/ https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/american-overseas-scho...
jsilence 1y ago
Also let's not forget that Quarto is the spiritual successor of the widely successful R Markdown ecosystem. By the same developers: https://quarto.org/docs/faq/#who-are-the-developers-of-quarto https://quarto.org/docs/faq/#who-are-the-developers-of-quart...
- riskassessment 1y ago
  Not just the spiritual successor but also backwards compatible in that Quarto can render R Markdown files (in addition to the newer quarto .qmd spec).
riedel 1y ago
Was going to ask the same question. Was talking to a friend just 2 days ago who redid all his lecture scripts with quarto and embedded the lecture presentations. Looked neat. Also that quarto interacts well with R studio and jupyter notebooks comes as a big plus.

How is this different from Quarto [0]? Quite similar in name, same extension, appears the same aims, but at the minute less functionality. [0] https://quarto.org/ https://quarto.org/

pinoy420 1y ago

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tecleandor 1y ago

I guess that the similarity of the names come from different places, and in this case might be a remembrance of QuarkXPress. It's convergent evolution! :D

jbverschoor 1y ago
Yeah that's the immediate connection I got too. I like the syntax.
zelphirkalt 1y ago
I guessed the name derived as follows: Quarks as the smallest particles, a view in most detail, the building blocks of things. Typesetting as the lowest level of abstraction for creating a document, "down" from Markdown.
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TacticalCoder 1y ago
People may not know it but at some point in the nineties you'd enter a bookstore and 95%+ of all the books and magazines were typeset using QuarkXPress. Then Adobe's InDesign showed up in 1999 and things began to change. FWIW I both wrote and typeset books myself (for a traditional publisher): I did most of them using QuarkXPress but I managed to sneak one I made with LaTeX (it was a hard sell to the publisher / printing press guys who were only ever using QuarkXPress). Also I was forced to heavily modify LaTeX templates to match exactly the one the publisher was using with QuarkXPress. So yup when I read "Quarkdown is a modern Markdown-based typetting system" the first thing I think about is QuarkXPress: great memories of MacOS (8? then 9?, pre OS X for sure) and my Sony Trinitron monitor.
- hypertexthero 1y ago
  QuarkXpress for typesetting, Photoshop for painting pixels, and Macromedia Freehand for turning scanned drawings into vector graphics. Was still using these in the early 2000s. Good times. https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/american-overseas-school-of-rome-print-work/ https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/american-overseas-scho...

jsilence 1y ago

Also let's not forget that Quarto is the spiritual successor of the widely successful R Markdown ecosystem. By the same developers: https://quarto.org/docs/faq/#who-are-the-developers-of-quarto https://quarto.org/docs/faq/#who-are-the-developers-of-quart...

riskassessment 1y ago
Not just the spiritual successor but also backwards compatible in that Quarto can render R Markdown files (in addition to the newer quarto .qmd spec).

riedel 1y ago

Was going to ask the same question. Was talking to a friend just 2 days ago who redid all his lecture scripts with quarto and embedded the lecture presentations. Looked neat. Also that quarto interacts well with R studio and jupyter notebooks comes as a big plus.