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Is the comparison table accurate? - 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?

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>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.

Pandoc is your friend for this and many other use cases.

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?

they were probably mentioning that, with pandoc, you can convert between HTML and PDF for any of these tools anyway

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.

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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