this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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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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[–] uzay@infosec.pub 17 points 2 years ago (9 children)

This! I want office that just uses markdown/latex and pandoc under the hood to output PDF documents

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 points 2 years ago

Nothing, I'd just like a nice GUI around it.

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