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# Comparison

from HN:

• markdown is .txt with just a tiny bit of syntactic sugar/syntax highlighting, and you can export it to pdf or html
• quarto is markdown-but-I-want-to-execute-code-blocks-inside
• typst is latex but modern, with 90% less cruft and 10% less functionality (academia, hating everything modern, will also hate you if you use typst)
• pandoc is how you export to pdf/html/whatever

By and large, it’s obvious which tool is needed when. There’s of course more, like asciidoc, but I struggle to think what isn’t being covered by the markdown/quarto/typst combo. Some wysiwyg editor maybe?

# see also

• I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst - I’m so glad they didn’t keep the math syntax, there’s finally progress in math text input!
• Tinymist plugin in vscode - is all you need to install
• Why I use code to do graphic design