> Even if your journal accepts PDFs, michaelmior's comment raises an important issue that a LaTeX style template cannot be imported into most (or all?) of these

> Even if your journal accepts PDFs, michaelmior's comment raises an important issue that a LaTeX style template cannot be imported into most (or all?) of these Markdown editors. Perhaps it would be easier to go the other way -- to modify a Markdown parser to output a simple subset of Latex that can fit into most common academic templates.