Quarkdown: next-generation, Turing complete Markdown for complex documents

Hello everyone! I'm thrilled to show you my progress on Quarkdown, a parser and renderer that introduces functions to Markdown, making it Turing complete. The goal is to allow full control over the document structure, layout and aesthetics - pretty much like LaTeX, just (a lot) more readable.

A Quarkdown project can be exported to HTML as a plain document, a presentation (via reveal.js) or a book (via paged.js). Exporting to LaTeX is planned in the long term.

Functions in Quarkdown are incredibly flexible. Here's what the stdlib offers:

  • Layout builders: .row, .column, .grid, ...
  • View modifiers: .text size:{small} variant:{smallcaps}, ...
  • Utility views: .tableofcontents, .whitespace, ...
  • Math operations: .sum, .divide, .pow, .sin, ...
  • File data: .csv, .read, .include
  • Statements: .if, .foreach, .repeat, .var, .let, .function (yes, even function declarations are functions)

I'm not going to overwhelm you with words - I guess practical results are way more important. Here you can find a demo presentation about Quarkdown built with Quarkdown itself: https://iamgio.eu/quarkdown/demo.
The source code of the presentation is here.

Here's the repository: https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown

I hope you enjoy this project as much as I enjoyed working on it! It was my thesis of my bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and I like it so much that I decided to keep going for a long time, hoping to get a nice community around it (I'm going to make some getting started guides soon).

A lot of work is still needed but I'm proud of the current results. Any feedback is much appreciated. Thank you for the time!