Importing external libraries

The .include function, previously seen in Including other Quarkdown files, can also import external libraries.

When you download Quarkdown or build it via distZip, the lib/qd directory contains utility libraries written in Quarkdown itself.

quarkdown/
├─ lib/qd/
│  ├─ lib.qd
│  ├─ ...
├─ bin/
│  ├─ quarkdown.jar

You can import .qd files into a Quarkdown project via .include {name}, without the file extension.

For example, to import paper.qd, use .include {paper}.

Unlike .include {path}, this approach only loads declared symbols without appending Markdown content from the file.

The default library directory is <install directory>/lib/qd. You can override this via the command-line option -l or --libs.