[Arm-netbook] revision control in the arts?

[mike.valk at gmail.com]

2017-06-06 15:47 GMT+02:00 Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>:

> On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 05:47:35PM -0400, John Luke Gibson wrote:
>
> For word processing, I think the only good solution is a document
> compiler, with the writer editing the source code.
>

The're is a way for arbitrary documents so work with version control.
conversion to an intermediate format like markdown.
http://blog.martinfenner.org/2014/08/25/using-microsoft-word-with-git/
https://github.com/vigente/gerardus/wiki/Integrate-git-diffs-with-word-docx-files

It uses pandoc to convert to markdown and then to git.

Found it on hackady
http://hackaday.com/2017/05/23/stupid-git-tricks