alt Hacker NewsThis looks very interesting and more approachable than Typst.
As some who uses headless chrome to turn html into pdf (for invoices), I have been looking for something simpler and faster.
I tried typst, but it felt messy to me. I wonder if quarkdown offers more streamlined experience
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promiseofbeans • last Tuesday at 9:12 AM
WEasyPrint is great for generating invoices from html!
Also the only good implementation of web layout/rendering I've seen done in python.
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dev_l1x_be • last Tuesday at 8:55 AM
> I tried typst, but it felt messy to me.
What exactly is messy about Typst?
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Had a chance to read the wiki/docs deeper. Quarkdown seems to use puppeteer and chrome-print-to-pdf to generate PDF from HTML [1].
So, aside from the more minimal format or Markdown compared to HTML, I don't see much appeal in quarkdown compared to feeding HTML to a headless chrome instance.
But it is a cool project if one wants to turn a bunch of markdown files to say a book or an article.
[1] https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown/wiki/pdf-export