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2023
Java, Lambok, PDFBox
Document Creation Software (Compiler)
About
Pipp is an open-source software designed for scholars and academic writers, providing an effortless way to format research papers in various style guides. With Pipp, focus on your content while it takes care of the boring formalities, including grammar and spell checking, intelligent document processing, and automated bibliography management.
This is arguably my biggest project to date. In order to practise my compiler construction skills, I planned to build a document creation compiler similar to LaTeX. However, as both a Computer Science and Anglistics student, I wanted to build a document creation software for literature, history, philosophy, and other disciplines that heavily rely on style guides and proper citation formatting, rather than focussing on typesetting and other benefits of LaTeX. In my experience, in many non-technical disciplines LaTeX is either not particularly known in the first place, or is seen as rather intimidating.