Kudos for this great, yet simple and lean toolchain!<p>Anyone familiar with command line tools and a corresponding aversion for bloated WYSIWYG apps will second the underlying idea that MS Word (and the likes) “should die” in favor of plain text workflows.<p>Yet, with the help of Pandoc (which does the heavy lifting in these boilerplates), nothing prevents you to keep using Word as a front-end and plug it in this exact same workflow. Word may not be the best-of-bread typesetting engine or layouting tool, but to many it still is useful as a quite decent word processor.<p>For those interested, I did a (long-read) write-up on how one could go from Word over Markdown to even InDesign (as an alternative templating&#x2F;typesetting engine, instead of LaTeX&#x2F;XeTeX): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rhythmus.be&#x2F;md2indd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rhythmus.be&#x2F;md2indd&#x2F;</a>