Thank you for asking! I have added a new page https://try.perm.pub/tools/ 
to answer half-ish of your questions. I'll answer below in this message too.

On Monday, November 6, 2023 at 3:43:50 AM UTC-5 Guillaume Dehaene wrote:

After spending 15mins reading through the doc at try.perm.pub and the 
"manifesto" on perm.pub itself, I'm still a bit confused about some of the 
key details of the project:
- what exactly is the overarching aim? As far as I can tell, this 
constructs an arxiv-like structure of versioning for technical documents, 
but hosting is decentralized (perm.pub only hosts links?) ?


"Decentralized arxiv-like hosting" is a good description. For those 
familiar with PubMed Central, I like the playful name "PubMe Decentral". 
But I've avoided the term "decentralized" for a variety of reasons.

Regarding overarching aim, I'm not sure at what level or time scale to 
answer that question. Similar to how for HTML I have a hard time answering 
what is HTML's overarching aim.

 

- what formats can I use to author to perm.pub? Having read the two latex 
based examples, I guess latex works, but can I do markdown?


Realistically, I would stick to either LaTeX or Markdown, at least for now. 
Those are the two source formats I am using.

 

Can I do quarto (an opinionated extension of pandoc markdown, www.quarto.org 
)?


I have not started testing and using Quarto but I plan to before the end of 
the year. Quarto will probably work well.

 

Can I do docx / openofficewrite like some teams like to do? since I know 
this is based on pandoc, I guess it's going to be somewhat flexible, but 
with restrictions at some key points.


I have tested generating a Baseprint snapshot from a LibreOffice doc, 
thanks to Pandoc, but I doubt many will find this approach satisfactory. I 
might be biased because I generally avoid word processors. My hunch is that 
if somebody likes using a word processor, they probably will find this tech 
in its current state too user-unfriendly. But in the future, maybe it will 
be different.

If anybody would like to be a be a trial user of using a word processor for 
baseprints, I'm more than happy to help collaborate. We can document in 
what ways this tech falls short of being user-friendly enough, which I 
suspect it does.

 


Best regards
Guillaume

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