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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The author is also involved in a markup language called djot, which is like markdown, but well-defined. It's an awesome language that will probably languish under markdown's dominance.