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
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.
- 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( @sxan@midwest.social ) 5•1 year ago
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.
- Cargon ( @Cargon@lemmy.ml ) 15•1 year ago
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.
- uzay ( @uzay@infosec.pub ) 13•1 year ago
This! I want office that just uses markdown/latex and pandoc under the hood to output PDF documents
- Kata1yst ( @Kata1yst@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
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/
- redxef ( @redxef@feddit.de ) 6•1 year ago
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.
- uzay ( @uzay@infosec.pub ) 3•1 year ago
What’s a good Latex editor that abstracts the formatting behind buttons and doesn’t need you to learn Latex?
- Kata1yst ( @Kata1yst@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
The closest would probably be LyX, or Overleaf.
- lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English6•1 year ago
Sort of like LyX?
- uzay ( @uzay@infosec.pub ) 1•1 year ago
I’ll have to take a look at that
- kitonthenet ( @kitonthenet@kbin.social ) 10•1 year ago
am I crazy or is this just a markdown renderer
- monk ( @monk@lemmy.unboiled.info ) 1•1 year ago
yeah, but then your car is one unwieldy bicycle
- MasseR ( @MasseR@sopuli.xyz ) 6•1 year ago
So like gitit?
- dumb_luck ( @dumb_luck@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
I’m currently working on this, using git and having GitHub actions produce artifacts when building the markdown files to pdf. It’s great!
- BestBouclettes ( @BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ) 2•1 year ago
Pandoc is absolutely amazing indeed
- jmcs ( @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•1 year ago
That sounds like bash. It supports editors too (with holy wars included).