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
32 Comments
Muehe@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 2y
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.
sxan@midwest.social · 6 pts · 2y
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@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 2y
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.
Muehe@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
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-cli
Muehe@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Like 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
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
Quarto user here, I use it for my blog.
There is also a vscode extension for WYSIWYM editing.
ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
Well every one already recommended latex or markdown.
I would also recommend typst, it's a modern latex alternative easy to make templates and a markdown like syntax, none of all the backslash keywords that I somehow always forget.
skilltheamps@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y
Uhhh typst looks hot, that one I need to give a spin, thanks!
ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I made a template a while back when I had to make report, since I had a professor that disliked the markdown look of previous ones.
A bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you make a few templates and write on them just like markdown with custom alias and whatnot.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Typst is fucking amazing. LaTeX is powerful but just takes too much effort to use for large part of the population to the point that I just can't recommend it to most people outside STEM. Typst is consistent, easier to use, faster, and collaborative. With no nonsensical error messages, broken builds, and technical debt - I can actually recommend it to most.
EmasXP@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Speaking of LaTeX, I really recommend LyX. You don't need to know any LaTeX to use it, and the result is always satisfying
uzay@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 2y
This! I want office that just uses markdown/latex and pandoc under the hood to output PDF documents
Kata1yst@kbin.social · 18 pts · 2y
That's just LaTeX?
Muehe@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
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@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y
So what's stopping you from putting your LaTeX files into a git repo and building them into a pdf when needed?
Muehe@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Nothing, I'd just like a nice GUI around it.
uzay@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 2y
What's a good Latex editor that abstracts the formatting behind buttons and doesn't need you to learn Latex?
Kata1yst@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
The closest would probably be LyX, or Overleaf.
prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
So something like eMacs with org mode and has pandoc under it to export to various outputs?
kitonthenet@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y
am I crazy or is this just a markdown renderer
monk@lemmy.unboiled.info · 1 pts · 2y
yeah, but then your car is one unwieldy bicycle
prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
I am confused what would be the combined functionality of the merged product. Do you need to output of converted files to be added to git when a document is version controlled?
Muehe@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Well like uzay said, basically just an office GUI that allows me to import/export into a lot of formats and automates document versioning away.
prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Do check on eMacs. I know it does a fantastic job for org mode but I’m not fully aware how close markdown support is.
nutshell7827@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
You can have Pandoc and Git with Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/). Both as Plugins. Or even with VS Code. Obsidian sadly isn't open source.
MasseR@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 2y
So like gitit?
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 2y
Pandoc is absolutely amazing indeed
epyon22@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
First time hearing about pandoc are you saying like a more competent version of o365 or confluence?
prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
No Pandoc isn’t an editor by any means. It’s an document conversion tool. Think converting a Markdown file into an docx or html or epub or pptx or pdf (via LaTeX or ConText). That’s what pandoc does.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 2y
It's also known as The Only Thing Written in Haskell That People Actually Use.
Muehe@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
If I'm understanding your question right, kind of. Pandoc is only for document conversion though, no spreadsheets, presentations, etc. But at that it can convert between a lot of formats. And git can be used to version and share those documents.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 2y
That sounds like bash. It supports editors too (with holy wars included).