{revise} package about debugverse HOT 5 OPEN

Something like https://github.com/nytimes/ice on top of something like https://github.com/yuzhenmi/taleweaver or any of https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg-editors?
ice is 10 years old and abandoned, and the demo doesn't work so I couldn't try it out unfortunately.

For instance in my case, I cannot use Google Docs due to confidentiality so I would need the changes to be contained in a single, mail-sendable file, like a .docx file. But maybe my case is not so common.

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fancy features:

• We can start by importing a goole doc or ms doc, and it translates the revisions into our system
• fancier : we can do this to import new revisions if some users didn't use the system
• we can export our doc to word and it will translate the commits into revisions (doc is just xml so that should be possible, not sure with google docs)
• child documents
• permissions (email + password) : since users don't need to install anything the commits are done by a virtual user, but the user is recorded as part of the commit

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• Before saving we can "stage"
• The staged version can be viewed separately, not editable
• It is used for the knitted preview
• The preview is cached by default (since I the main use case the R code wouldn't be touched), but we can disable the behavior
• "knit on stage" is on by default, we knit when staging, typically with the cache this should be quick enough.

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More thoughts again, I think there are orthogonal parts to this :

1. conversion from word/docs to md (the opposite is there already), surprisingly I don't find anything. this is big in itself, but maybe a quickwin would be to just fetch convert titles and extract text, then we can think about bold, italic, bullet points, images, tables... There really should already be something somewhere though
2. "revised" objects : this is a representation of the history of an object. We need at least to be able to go from git to revised, but a complete tool would go from ms word to revised, from google docs to revised, and from revised to all other 3.
3. simple UI with tabs "compare", "current" (editable), "staged", and "preview", and associated buttons
4. fancy UI: to make then diffs and comments look more like google docs or ms word, this is not a necessary part, more like eye candy/cherry on the cake
5. admin: authentication, rights, where does the app live, how to share/install a new app

Can we do a useful version with a minimum of the above?

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See also :

• https://www.overleaf.com
• https://github.com/ClaudioZandonella/trackdown
• https://curvenote.com

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