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2026-04-27 16:54 UTC
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @tomstoneham@dair-community.social Yes, the idea is much simpler, and the data formats they use are also limiting the complexity. So, it’s treated as a problem akin to, say, file conversion: Markdown → DOCX → LaTeX → troff → Markdown should ideally result in the original document.
I totally agree, this analogy is limited; but as a first approach it’s a clever approach to operationalizing the problem.
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@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org 2026-04-27 16:59
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org @tomstoneham@dair-community.social Michael, that I think would be more problematic (and what I originally assumed) whereas what I now *think* (?) they are doing is Markdown -> docx -> Markdown; Resultant Markdown -> Latex -> Markdown; Resultant Markdown -> troff -> Markdown (the comment about order independence in the set of reversible operations is still weird though…)