Org mode and pandoc work quite well for a similar workflow. The ability to move around chapter trees in org mode is a godsend. It's crazy to see how far the art

Org mode and pandoc work quite well for a similar workflow. The ability to move around chapter trees in org mode is a godsend. It's crazy to see how far the art of "word processing" deviated from WordStar days. MS Word's proprietary doc binary didn't help either (people would mess up formatting and lose entire documents). It's nice to see the focus come back to content and streamlining production with reproducible formatting.