Quarto
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
2warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
May 30, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I then discovered quarto [1] and this changed everything. Much nicer experience.”
“quarto is my goto for this”
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“One nice thing about Quarto, is that I could have different fonts and formatting niceties for the epub vs PDF version”
self-published a tech bookon “Writing a book with Quarto”
Caveats and dissent
“I used reveal.js and quadro to make lecture slides. And as much as I wanted to like it, it never worked out.”
teaches lectureson “Writing a book with Quarto”
“I've tried using Quarto's preview but it's so slow in comparison.”
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All comments 7
“I then discovered quarto [1] and this changed everything. Much nicer experience.”
“I use it for writing articles that becomes .qmd file for my quarto blog”
“I craft a detailed and ordered set of lecture notes in a Quarto file”
“quarto is my goto for this”
“One nice thing about Quarto, is that I could have different fonts and formatting niceties for the epub vs PDF version”
“I used reveal.js and quadro to make lecture slides. And as much as I wanted to like it, it never worked out.”
“I've tried using Quarto's preview but it's so slow in comparison.”