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quiet.md
Fast, quiet
local notes
Drawn natively with Rust + GPUI, smooth even with million-character documents. Your notes stay on your computer, compatible with Feishu (Lark) docs.
github.com
Supercharge your AI agents with data from the web and beyond. Building the library for superintelligence. 🔥
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Over the years, the format used in writing apps started to change from proprietary .docx to .pages and .pdf to the innocuous syntax called Markdown. Outside the tech field, few are familiar with its name, and yet more and more people use it unknowingly.9
Today, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Google Chat, Teams, and Trello, among others, use Markdown syntax, at least partially. Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses. GitHub, Reddit, and similar tech-oriented sites have been using their own Markdown flavors for years now.
github.com
like jq but for Markdown: find specific elements in a md doc
Example Usage:
Use pipe (|) to chain filters together. For example, to select sections containing "usage", and within those find all unordered list items:
cat example.md | mdq '# usage | -'
unifiedjs.com
Content as structured data
We compile content to syntax trees and syntax trees to content.
We also provide hundreds of packages to work on the trees in between.
You can build on the unified collective to make all kinds of interesting things.
Typst is a modern typesetting language. See this post for a good intro to the topic -- Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX - jreyesr's blog; via. See Typst as a Language
Typst makes big strides; Sep 2026.
A New Typst Template for Pandoc
Building the new Hypermedia Systems and the source code to the book; pdf file can be built by running just.
Rheo? is an typesetting and static site engine for Typst.
Obsidian is a knowledge base that works on top of your local folder of plain text files. Think of logseq and roamresearch.
content directory as a vault (obsidian word)./ commands are handy in writing wikilinks = WikiLinkExtension(base_url="/", end_url=".html")Creating and using templates in Obsidian.
Use case: I write my notebooks and posts using markdown and ergo obsidian. The two types have a frontmatter that looks like this (taken from this document):
---
title: Obsidian
kind: notebook
date: 2023-04-12
tags:
- pkm
- markdown
- text-editor
---
Using instructions from the templates page, i created _obstemplates directory and added notebook.md as a file with the following content:
---
title: {{title}}
date: {{date}}
kind: post
description: TODO
tags:
- TODO
---
To use this template, use the "ribbon" and select "Insert Template". voila!
I'm using these plugins
Examples of interesting obsidian published websites
Related:
"Djot is a light markup syntax. It derives most of its features from commonmark, but it fixes a few things that make commonmark's syntax complex and difficult to parse efficiently. It is also much fuller-featured than commonmark, with support for definition lists, footnotes, tables, several new kinds of inline formatting (insert, delete, highlight, superscript, subscript), math, smart punctuation, attributes that can be applied to any element, and generic containers for block-level, inline-level, and raw content. "
luarocks install djot"Idyll can be used to create explorable explanations, write data-driven stories, and add interactivity to blog engines and content management systems. The tool can generate standalone webpages or be embedded in existing pages."
[var name:'x' value:10 /][data name:'myData' source: 'myData.csv' /]See also Static Site Generators
pikchr.org
Some notes and links on Static Site Generators (SSG).
A "hello world" program for the 2010's (and 2020s).
Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator; Nov 2023.
The understated innovation of static site generators
Smaller Static Sites with New Formats - 2022. Optimizing Fonts, Images etc using newer formats and tools.
Elements Of a Great Markup Language
"... static site generator which takes a bunch of input documents, a custom conversion script, and outputs a bunch of HTML files."
scp blog.md pros.sh:/ and boom. First create an account by logging in to ssh new@prose.sh.Publii - Open-Source CMS for Static Site
roman-kashitsyn/mmapped.blog that powers mmapped.blog is a Go program that implements? subset of latex and converts it to HTML. See the "blogware" source code.
Kitten: Home A 💕 Small Web development kit. Build using #html, #css , and #javascript . Progressively enhance with Streaming HTML and #htmx
jemdoc -- light text-based markup language designed for creating websites. Based on Asciidoc. Has #latex support for math, but the equations are rendered as static images, not MathJax etc.,. Appears to be popular with academics.
JBake - Java based open source static site/blog generator -- this is actually surprisingly smooth.
nuex/zodiac: A static website generator written in awk and sh.
Makefile-Based Static Website Generator
Makefile and discount powered blog
Static site generator with rsync and lowdown - Roman Zolotarev [SSG]
kambrium/dssg: A static site generator written in D
sysgears/grain: Static Web Site Building Framework For Groovy that uses ASCIIdoctor
Static site generators need less rigid content APIs | Hacker News
Hammer for Mac 6.9 - Available Now
jeremycw/mfbg: Mother F*ing Blog Generator -- a Makefile + pandoc.
Home - Styx Static Site Generator -- The Purely Functional Static Site Generator. Styx is a functional static site generator based on the Nix package manager.
srid/rib-sample: Sample site for the Rib static site generator
Pelican 4.2.0 — Pelican 4.2.0 documentation with m.css looks very good.
bastibe/org-static-blog: A static site generator using org-mode
Lume, the static site generator for Deno - Lume
jorge is a personal (small + opinionated) site generator inspired by Jekyll, written in Go, with org-mode and markdown support.
Static site generator for Django - Django Distill
go get -u github.com/ponzu-cms/ponzu/...
Examples of surge.sh sites:
See my surge.sh pages
m4 macros, and a Makefile.mdoc, install etc., to produce https://text.causal.agency/001-make.txt.Rheo? is an typesetting and static site engine for Typst.
Pandoc is a program that converts between various text markup formats.
Pandoc allows you to customise the output via extensive command line arguments and by templates.
<main> </main> tag.These are some of the examples of users customising pandoc to output LaTeX, HTML to their taste and requirements.
My own attempts are here:
Pandoc filters can be written in Haskell which modify the document structure programmatically. These are some of the user written filters that are instructive:
<ul> lists and will collapse back to readible lists in the absence of css support, making it accessible to all readers.Ox-pandoc is an exporter that translates Org-mode file to various other formats via Pandoc.
Markdown to InDesign; Pandoc now ships with a writer able to produce an ICML file from any Pandoc-supported input file format.13 ICML is the document format of Adobe InCopy; Dec 2015.
- [output.pandoc.profile.pdf] + output-file = "output.pdf" + to = "latex"
From an HN thread:
It's even possible to replace (Xe)LaTeX with weasy, a Python HTML-to-PDF converter. It supports two-colums via CSS, automatic CSS hypens, CSS page counters and embedding SVGs. I just needed an HTML header with CSS in the markdown file.
$ pandoc --filter pandoc-citeproc --csl ieee.csl --bibliography=paper.bib --smart --normalize -f markdown+multiline_tables+inline_notes -t html5 -V margin-top:0.5in -V margin-bottom:0.5in -V margin-left:0.5in -V margin-right:0.5in -o output.html input.md
$ python3 -c "from weasyprint import HTML; HTML('output.html').write_pdf('output.pdf', presentational_hints=True)"
For LaTeX-style math equations I added mathjax-pandoc-filter as filter to the pandoc args:
--filter ~/node_modules/.bin/mathjax-pandoc-filter -Mmathjax.centerDisplayMath -Mmathjax.noInlineSVG
^b5a0d2
If you are trying to convert an HTML page to PDF using Pandoc, and the HTML page has svg drawings (e.g.: this excellent post - The Big LLM Architecture Comparison by Sebastian Raschka), pandoc might choke on it unless you have rsvg-convert installed (on macOS: brew install svg2pdf). As you can see from this commit that added passing svg through rsvg-convert command to covnert it into a png file.
also had to install the latex svg package.
even after this the PDF generation failed with:
pdflatex: major issue: User/administrator updates are out-of-sync. Error producing PDF.
! Package svg Error: File `1e7afdcc9b596b58d739c7d01b66c47cb52f6c23_svg-tex.pdf ' is missing.
See the svg package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help. ...
l.140 ...dcc9b596b58d739c7d01b66c47cb52f6c23.svg}}
Why Use plain text (like markdown) to write things? Dr Kieran Healy has a nice website explaining how
The Markdown Guide for the Perplexed
I MarkEdit as the default app to open .md files on MacOS. Otherwise it is painful to wait for XCode to open it. MarkEdit is quite fast and nimble. I have also used Typora before for the same thing before.
uselink — Turn any doc into a living, shareable link
Foliant is a all-in-one documentation authoring tool. It lets you produce standalone documents in pdf and docx, as well as websites, from single Markdown source. Foliant is a higher order tool, which means it uses other programs to do its job. For pdf and docx, it uses Pandoc, for websites it uses MkDocs. Foliant preprocessors let you include parts of documents in other documents, show and hide content with flags, render diagrams from text, and much more.
Who Is Foliant for?
You'll love Foliant if you:
PP is a text preprocessor designed for Pandoc (and more generally Markdown and reStructuredText).
pp now implements:
Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI | Hacker News -- a few tools mentioned, like jina.ai
markdown.new - Markdown for Agents | Cloudflare-Powered URL to Markdown
ReMarkdown — HTML that looks like Markdown text
sdoc path/to/README.md opens your file at https://sdoc.dev with pleasant default styles which can be altered. Share the url to share your file + custom styling. Your file never hits the SDocs server: Encoded file content lives in the URL fragmentpandoc-url2cite)gem install markdown2confluence and use it: markdown2confluence foo.mdmdbook documentation executable. "...it is essentially nothing more than an mdbook clone with a custom preprocessor."Python One liner:
python3 -m markdown -x markdown.extensions.fenced_code -x markdown.extensions.codehilite index.md > index2.html
mq '.h' demo.md
... lists all the h elements ..
This is intersting to me because i use Python Markdown to render this site, and use many built-in and third party extensions.
Mistune for Python
: * claims to be fastest markdown renderer for Python
mistune.markdown('I am using **mistune markdown parser**')lowdown — simple markdown translator is a Markdown translator producing HTML5 and roff documents in the ms and man formats. Written in C. "Beyond the basic Markdown syntax support, lowdown supports the following Markdown features and extensions: autolinking, fenced code, tables, superscripts, footnotes, disabled inline HTML, “smartypants”, metadata, commonmark (in progress). You can control which parser features are used by using the -d (disable feature) and -e (enable feature) flags."
Gottox/smu: simple markup - markdown like syntax
syntax-tree/mdast: Markdown Abstract Syntax Tree format; see also syntax-tree/unist: Universal Syntax Tree used by unifiedjs
lkesteloot/teamten's markdown parser in Java is very easy to understand how the parsing works. It is a good read!
Markdown for the component era | MDX MDX allows you to use JSX in your markdown content. You can import components, such as interactive charts or alerts, and embed them within your content. This makes writing long-form content with components a blast. 🚀
Markdown, but it is more powerful and more extensible.casual-effects.com
Markdeep is a technology for writing plain text documents that will look good in any web browser. It supports diagrams, common styling conventions, and equations as extensions of Markdown syntax. It is free, easy to use, and doesn't need a plugin or Internet connection.
covertprestige.info
ReMarkdown is a CSS experiment and reusable stylesheet for displaying simple HTML text as its Markdown equivalent.