I am sure hope somebody™ already thought of this. Feel free to advertise your project here.
P.S.: Image transcription:
Patrick from SpongeBob SquarePants gesturing to the left with open hands:
Somebody should take document type conversion from Pandoc and version control from Git
Patrick gesturing to the right in a pushing motion:
And build a frontend around it
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Shameless plug for Pandoc because I love it
That scalable vector graphic on the page shows source document type on the left and target type on the right. TL;DL: It converts about two dozen document types into about three dozen document types.
P.S.E.G.: PDF ← Markdown ←→ HTML → PDF
P.P.S: Where are my manners? Image transcription added to post.
The author is also involved in a markup language called djot, which is like markdown, but well-defined. It’s an awesome language that will probably languish under markdown’s dominance.
I’ve been using Quarto a lot for Data Science work and it uses Pandoc under the hood I recall.
Not sure what you’re envisioning by Pandoc + git, but the RStudio IDE has a git integration and a WYSIWYM Quarto editor.
Quarto looks quite interesting indeed, thanks for pointing it out!
For those interested it’s an “Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc”
https://quarto.org/
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cliLike a data format inhabiting the centre of that conversion graph they have on their website, basically a superset of the available input types, that is then version controlled by git, and can be exported to any of the output formats, in a neat frontend that removes all that complexity from me. :D
Quarto user here, I use it for my blog.
There is also a vscode extension for WYSIWYM editing.
This! I want office that just uses markdown/latex and pandoc under the hood to output PDF documents
That’s just LaTeX?
Haha, kind of. However conversion between all these formats is lossy in some directions and I don’t know of any software that integrates version control of documents by default (not saying there are none).
P.S.: Yes I know, https://xkcd.com/927/
So what’s stopping you from putting your LaTeX files into a git repo and building them into a pdf when needed?
Nothing, I’d just like a nice GUI around it.
What’s a good Latex editor that abstracts the formatting behind buttons and doesn’t need you to learn Latex?
The closest would probably be LyX, or Overleaf.
Sort of like LyX?
I’ll have to take a look at that
am I crazy or is this just a markdown renderer
yeah, but then your car is one unwieldy bicycle
So like gitit?
I’m currently working on this, using git and having GitHub actions produce artifacts when building the markdown files to pdf. It’s great!
Pandoc is absolutely amazing indeed
That sounds like bash. It supports editors too (with holy wars included).
