I looked at AsciiDoc and thought it was perfect for authoring. But the toolchain is one aspect where a pandoc-based workflow makes a lot of sense. When I saw As

I looked at AsciiDoc and thought it was perfect for authoring. But the toolchain is one aspect where a pandoc-based workflow makes a lot of sense. When I saw AsciiDoc needs DocBook to render a PDF, I had to move on because I remembered how hard the tools are to use on Windows. Just now I looked up "docbook tools" and "install docbook". Lengthy, multi-page instructions to just get and set up the stylesheets. Lists of alternative tools. Where to start? What to pick? I think we had to use cygwin's docbook package to make it work back in the day. Compare to downloading a pandoc binary and miktex, which is a piece of cake.