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Is the comparison table accurate? - https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown#comparison https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown#comparison Surely LaTeX has full scripti

Is the comparison table accurate? - https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown#comparison https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown#comparison Surely LaTeX has full scripting ability even though I wouldn't wish such a punishment on anyone. Surely Quarkdown's gibberish like syntax is not more concise and more readable than Typst? And surely the learning curve is not easier than Typst? I'd say the learning curve is more or less the same as Typst. Surely LaTeX can also produce HTML with tex4ht?

flenserboy 1y ago
Pandoc is your friend for this and many other use cases.
- blenderob 1y ago
  Not sure I understand. I never said anything about my use cases. I was checking the accuracy of the comparison table. Did you mean to post that comment here or were you replying to another comment?
  - cAtte_ 1y ago
    they were probably mentioning that, with pandoc, you can convert between HTML and PDF for any of these tools anyway
    - blenderob 1y ago
      Ah! Thanks. Yeah Pandoc is great for conversions to HTML and PDF. It's my no. 1 tool for writing docs and generating multiple formats out of the docs.
nonethewiser 1y ago
>And surely the learning curve is not easier than Typst? To be fair, (most) markdown is valid Quarkdown. Barrier to entry really doesnt get any lower than that. Of course the learning curve is not fully synonymous with the barrier to entry, but it's a significant part. And "learning curve" is really such a subjective quality. Kinda fucked from the start once you put it in a comparison table. Explicit features are more objective but even then sometimes products dont NEED certain features because of their design.
kccqzy 1y ago
I mean one can take a quick look at what has been accomplished in TikZ and pgf to figure LaTeX and plain TeX's scripting ability. The comparison table is clearly inaccurate.

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Is the comparison table accurate? - https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown#comparison https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown#comparison Surely LaTeX has full scripti

by blenderob 1y ago

flenserboy 1y ago
Pandoc is your friend for this and many other use cases.
- blenderob 1y ago
  Not sure I understand. I never said anything about my use cases. I was checking the accuracy of the comparison table. Did you mean to post that comment here or were you replying to another comment?
  - cAtte_ 1y ago
    they were probably mentioning that, with pandoc, you can convert between HTML and PDF for any of these tools anyway
    - blenderob 1y ago
      Ah! Thanks. Yeah Pandoc is great for conversions to HTML and PDF. It's my no. 1 tool for writing docs and generating multiple formats out of the docs.
nonethewiser 1y ago
>And surely the learning curve is not easier than Typst? To be fair, (most) markdown is valid Quarkdown. Barrier to entry really doesnt get any lower than that. Of course the learning curve is not fully synonymous with the barrier to entry, but it's a significant part. And "learning curve" is really such a subjective quality. Kinda fucked from the start once you put it in a comparison table. Explicit features are more objective but even then sometimes products dont NEED certain features because of their design.
kccqzy 1y ago
I mean one can take a quick look at what has been accomplished in TikZ and pgf to figure LaTeX and plain TeX's scripting ability. The comparison table is clearly inaccurate.