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
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
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.
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.
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.
Speaking of LaTeX, I really recommend LyX. You don’t need to know any LaTeX to use it, and the result is always satisfying
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?
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.
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.
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.
First time hearing about pandoc are you saying like a more competent version of o365 or confluence?
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.
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.
