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Quarkdown is an open-source Markdown-based typesetting system that turns lightweight Markdown into print-ready books, academic papers, knowledge bases, or interactive presentations with powerful automation and layout features.
Quarkdown is a modern, Turing-complete Markdown typesetting system that compiles single projects into various document formats such as books, academic papers, knowledge bases, or interactive presentations.
Typst, a typesetting system positioned as a LaTeX replacement, has released version 0.15 with new features including support for variable fonts, MathML, and multiple bibliographies.
A GitHub repository offering twenty standalone LaTeX examples to create vintage scientific paper aesthetics, incorporating MetaPost and LuaTeX for graphics and typesetting.
The article discusses the challenges of full justification in monospace text and highlights an example where an author manually chose words to achieve perfect alignment, as seen in a Super Metroid guide.
The tweet praises the typesetting design of Slax Reader and shares the news that Japanese software company 时雨堂 has released its entire management handbook, reflecting the transparency in the software industry.
A historical essay about the Paige Compositor, the complex typesetting machine Mark Twain invested in for over a decade, which ultimately led to his financial ruin and depression.
Justif is a JavaScript library that brings Knuth-Plass text justification and microtypography to the web, enabling publication-grade typesetting in browsers.
Quarkdown is an enhanced typesetting system based on Markdown, supporting variables and functions, multi-format output, real-time preview and other powerful features. It is suitable for books, papers, presentations, etc. Installation requires Java 17+.
Rheo 0.4.0 is an update to a document infrastructure tool that enables multi-format publishing (PDF, HTML, EPUB) from Typst source files.
Typst uses constrained memoization (comemo) and pure function design to make the language and compiler work together, achieving efficient incremental compilation and real-time preview. The article details the design ideas of layout caching, module evaluation memoization, function purity, and the introspection system.
Typst 0.15.0 introduces variable fonts, HTML export with MathML, multi-file export, multiple bibliographies, PDF standards targeting, and many other improvements.
Typst 0.15, a major release of the open-source typesetting system, introduces support for variable fonts, MathML export, multi-file output, multiple bibliographies, and multiple PDF standards, along with improved documentation and diagnostics.