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Quarkdown author and project lead here. I started Quarkdown as a uni research project and couldn't imagine what it would end up being 2 years later. Thanks for
by iamgioh 6mo ago
Quarkdown author and project lead here. I started Quarkdown as a uni research project and couldn't imagine what it would end up being 2 years later. Thanks for engaging! I'll try and respond to your comments.
- tasuki 6mo agoI read https://iamgio.eu/2025-12-10-accidentally-in-silicon-valley/ https://iamgio.eu/2025-12-10-accidentally-in-silicon-valley/ and it appears it worked out well – I'm happy for you!
- iamgioh 6mo agoThank you! This project is giving me so much fulfillment
- ASalazarMX 6mo agoIt strikes me as odd to add functions to a text format, given that even in GUI documents macros are usually avoided. Was Quarkdown designed for complex and repetitive documents? Thank you for volunteering to field questions.
- iamgioh 6mo agoQuarkdown was designed for control. Simple Markdown to define content, functions (LaTeX-style, but not macros!) for a declarative approach to document format and styling. Scripting came out naturally, so why not. Since v2 QD comes with a permission system that makes things safer.
- drfloyd51 6mo ago> why not? I wonder. > Since v2 QD comes with a permission system that makes things safer. That’s why not. You got your JavaScript in my HTML. Seriously though… it might be a useful feature. Or it could kill your product’s focus. Sincerely, good luck.
- koliber 5mo agoIs it like CSS for HTML?
- maxloh 6mo agoWould you consider "fixing" the bold syntax on v3? I have always believed that instead of **bold** and *italic*, it should be *bold* and _italic_. That extra asterisk is a poor design decision in markdown. It really makes it inconvenient to edit Markdown on a phone or tablet.
- iamgioh 6mo agoNot planned, CommonMark compliance is a strong trait of Quarkdown's identity
- hnlmorg 6mo agoIt always bugs me that _underscore_ is the syntax for italics rather than underline. I’m sure back in the old days of READMEs, long before markdown was a thing, the conventions were this: /italics/ _underline_ *bold*
- Cadwhisker 6mo agoMy /usr/bin/ folder wants to know which bit gets italicised :)
- xigoi 5mo agoSame as in my_snake_case_name :)
- oneeyedpigeon 5mo agoI know this is a throwaway joke, but I was interested anyway... According to my own local Markdown formatters, the answer would be both "usr" and "bin", with the surrounding slashes removed, but the internal slash remaining. In other words: usr/bin (but underlined instead of italic!) Of course, this problem is nothing new since a filename might easily be named `_my_file_`.
- hnlmorg 5mo agoNone because it would be surrounded by backticks. But also, this convention predated rendering text/plain as text/html