I used it to output my doctoral thesis in LaTeX from Markdown 10 years ago, and similarly for going back and forth between my supervisor's Word documents and the main thesis text.

Embarrassingly, a horrible little script for converting Pandoc's Markdown endnotes to inline format remains my most-starred GitHub repo: https://github.com/ltrgoddard/inliner/

Basic familiarity with the paragraph styles in Word is like a 20 minute task.

If you are using markdown, you already understand the conceptual basis for it, so you just need to understand how it's implemented over there.

I'm not arguing that it is something you should do, just rolling my eyes at "I would be lost".

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