this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
171 points (90.9% liked)

Open Source

30272 readers
2218 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uhhh typst looks hot, that one I need to give a spin, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I made a template a while back when I had to make report, since I had a professor that disliked the markdown look of previous ones.

A bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you make a few templates and write on them just like markdown with custom alias and whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Speaking of LaTeX, I really recommend LyX. You don't need to know any LaTeX to use it, and the result is always satisfying