Quarkdown

What it does

Quarkdown is a modern, fast, Markdown-based typesetting system to create papers, presentations, knowledge bases and websites. Write in the markup language you're already familiar with for a flat learning curve, but juice it up with powerful extensions for full control over your documents, and live preview to enter flow state faster. Quarkdown runs on VS Code or your terminal.

Quarkdown is a modern, open-source, Markdown-based typesetting system for creating papers, presentations, knowledge bases and static websites.

Markdown meets the power of LaTeX. And it's free and open source. .docauthor { Jennifer Chu } .pagemargin { topright } .docauthor | MIT News # X-ray flashes from a supermassive black hole !( 70% )[ Black hole ]( img/blackhole.jpg ) .abstract One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. The black hole in question is `1ES 1927+654` , which is about as massive as a million suns and sits in a galaxy that is 270 million light-years away. In 2018, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed that the black hole’s corona — a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma — suddenly **disappeared** , before reassembling months later. The brief though dramatic…from quarkdown.com

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