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Quarkdown (quarkdown.com)
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Letting ideas flow into your next presentation, paper or book.

Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Damn typesetting sounds like such a cool term. Makes me think you're picking up each letter and putting them... actually wait is that literally what it used to mean? Putting letters in a printing press?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, and it was a renowned job up until the late 90s/early 2000s. The job transformed drastically in the early 80s with upcoming new techniques (e.g. phototypesetting, the predecessor to digital typeset).

    Without typesetters, a major role in terms of grammar and design checks broke away. This isn't the only factor, but since early 2000s, typos where everywhere.

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