Quark (dairy product) then known as "syrniki". In Latvia, quark is eaten savory mixed with sour cream and scallions on rye bread or with potatoes. In desserts, quark is commonly baked into "biezpiena plātsmaize", a crusted sheet cake baked with or without raisins. A sweetened treat "biezpiena sieriņš" (small curd cheese) is made of small sweetened blocks of quark dipped in chocolate. Estonian Quark is evaluated on olfaction, vision, taste, after taste, and texture and is distributed nationally as well as to nearby regions. Although common in continental Europe, manufacturing of quark is rare in the Americas. A few dairies manufacture it, such
Quark (company) program, mTropolis, before discontinuing it in the late 1990s. Quark acquired two companies creating add-ons for QuarkXPress and InDesign, in 2005 alap and in 2010 Gluon. In March 2008, Quark announced a new direction. Quark acquired an XML editor vendor in 2008, a company called in.vision research. On May 29, 2012 Quark acquired Mobile IQ, with digital publishing technology for tablet devices named PressRun, later renamed to App Studio. Reflecting a shift towards Web-based word-processing tools such as Office 365 and Google Docs, in November 2014, Quark announced the release of a new authoring tool, Quark Author. In November 2017,