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+# Custom Gitea Instance
+A customized image of gitea designed to incorporate .docx and jupyter file renderers
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+- .docx is achieved via pulling pandoc from the pandoc/core image
+- jupyter rendering is achieved via inclusion of the jupyter python package
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