quillmark 0.87.1

Python bindings for Quillmark - format-first Markdown rendering

Quillmark — Python bindings

Python bindings for Quillmark's format-first Markdown rendering engine.

Maintained by TTQ.

Installation

pip install quillmark

Quick Start

from quillmark import Quillmark, Document, OutputFormat

engine = Quillmark()
quill = engine.quill_from_path("path/to/quill")

markdown = """~~~
$quill: my_quill
$kind: main
title: Hello World
~~~

# Hello
"""

parsed = Document.from_markdown(markdown)
result = quill.render(parsed, OutputFormat.PDF)
result.artifacts[0].save("output.pdf")

API surface

The Python surface mirrors the @quillmark/wasm package. Names follow snake_case conventions; the underlying concepts (and shapes of return values) are the same.

Quillmark

engine = Quillmark()
engine.registered_backends()      # ['typst']
quill = engine.quill_from_path("path/to/quill")

Quill

quill.backend_id            # "typst"
quill.supports_canvas       # True iff the backend supports canvas preview
quill.blueprint             # auto-generated annotated Markdown blueprint
quill.schema                # structured dict of the quill's document schema
quill.metadata              # identity snapshot of the quill: section
quill.supported_formats     # [OutputFormat.PDF, ...]
quill.quill_ref             # "name@version"

result  = quill.render(parsed, OutputFormat.PDF)          # ppi=, pages= optional
session = quill.open(parsed)
form    = quill.form(parsed)
blank   = quill.blank_main()
card    = quill.blank_card("note")

RenderSession

session = quill.open(parsed)
session.page_count
session.backend_id
session.supports_canvas
session.warnings
session.render(OutputFormat.SVG, pages=[0])

RenderResult / Artifact

result.artifacts            # [Artifact, ...]
result.warnings             # [Diagnostic, ...]
result.format               # OutputFormat
result.render_time_ms       # float

artifact.format             # OutputFormat
artifact.bytes              # bytes
artifact.mime_type          # 'application/pdf', 'image/svg+xml', ...
artifact.save("out.pdf")

Document

doc = Document.from_markdown(markdown)
emitted = doc.to_markdown()

stored   = doc.to_json()
restored = Document.from_json(stored)
maybe    = Document.try_from_json(blob)          # None when not a DTO

Document.schema_version_of(blob)                 # raw tag (incl. unknown futures)
Document.current_schema_version()                # what this build writes

doc.clone()
doc.equals(other)
doc.card_count
doc.main; doc.cards; doc.body; doc.warnings

doc.set_field("title", "New")
doc.push_card({"kind": "note", "fields": {"x": 1}, "body": "..."})
# insert_card, remove_card, move_card, set_card_kind,
# update_card_field, remove_card_field, update_card_body, ...

Schema model

A field's cell is inferred from whether the schema declares a default::

• Must Fill (no default:) — the blueprint renders <must-fill>. An absent Must Fill field is a non-fatal signal (validation::must_fill_absent) — the render path zero-fills it silently. A surviving <must-fill> sentinel is fatal (validation::must_fill_sentinel). Partial documents are first-class; quill.render() only raises for malformed input.
• Endorsed (with default:) — the blueprint renders the default value with a ; delete-ok annotation, and the default is used when the document omits the field.

There is no required: axis on FieldSchema.

Error contract

A single exception type — QuillmarkError — is raised for every failure mode. Every raised exception carries a non-empty .diagnostics list of Diagnostic objects. This matches the WASM binding's contract.

try:
    Document.from_markdown(bad_md)
except QuillmarkError as exc:
    for d in exc.diagnostics:
        print(d.severity, d.code, d.message, d.path)

EditError-shaped failures (invalid field names, kind names, out-of-range indices) prefix the message with [EditError::<Variant>] — the same format WASM uses — so callers can pattern-match on the message when they need to.

Changelog

See the changelog and the GitHub Releases page for release notes and version history.

Development

uv venv
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
uv run pytest

License

Apache-2.0