Open Source Showerthoughts #0

Muehe@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 169 points –

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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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?

So something like eMacs with org mode and has pandoc under it to export to various outputs?