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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
by 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 agoYeah that's the immediate connection I got too. I like the syntax.
- zelphirkalt 1y agoI 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 agoPeople 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 agoQuarkXpress 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...