I'm writing my PhD dissertation in Markdown. It's killer feature (for me) is that a) it converts to a plethora of different formats (including Latex and Word) v

I'm writing my PhD dissertation in Markdown. It's killer feature (for me) is that a) it converts to a plethora of different formats (including Latex and Word) via Pandoc, b) it works well with version control, and c) Pandoc filters let me do an almost unlimited amount of automated preprocessing on the document with simple scripting.