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
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.
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.
This! I want office that just uses markdown/latex and pandoc under the hood to output PDF documents
am I crazy or is this just a markdown renderer
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.
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?
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.
So like gitit?
I’m currently working on this, using git and having GitHub actions produce artifacts when building the markdown files to pdf. It’s great!
Pandoc is absolutely amazing indeed
That sounds like bash. It supports editors too (with holy wars included).
First time hearing about pandoc are you saying like a more competent version of o365 or confluence?
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