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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    1 year ago

    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/

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      1 year ago

      So what’s stopping you from putting your LaTeX files into a git repo and building them into a pdf when needed?

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