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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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?