Pandoc is amazing. I'm an architect so I use a lot of InDesign. But of course it's not good for intensively editing the text itself, it's a presentation tool. E

Pandoc is amazing. I'm an architect so I use a lot of InDesign. But of course it's not good for intensively editing the text itself, it's a presentation tool. Everyone I know just uses Word and copies and pastes. The poor souls. I learned LaTeX late in life for a few reasons: - I publish in journals that all have different layout requirements, so reformatting to submit to more than one is a big pain. - Using a non-WSYIWYG editor enforces clarity. It's a lot easier to see each sentence as a whole. If a sentence is longer than a single line in VSCode it should probably be more than one sentence. - The features of an IDE allow you to see each line (sentence) in one place, and move things around more flexibly with the IDE shortcuts. You can easily rearrange the flow of a text. And of course you can make inline comments without having to clean them up before sending the doc somewhere. - I don't have to care about things like image placement and anchoring in the text until output. This is an area that WYSIWYG editors like Word are particularly painful. There are other reasons like equations and notations, but that's enough for now. All that said here's my workflow: I write LaTeX in VSCode (soon switching to vim). Then, I can use Pandoc to convert to Word if I need to (it's still where most of the templates come from in the discipline). This is also helpful in working with collaborators in my area since they typically won't know LaTeX. Here's where it gets fun - I write LaTex, then use Pandoc to output directly to .icml (InDesign Markup). These link directly in my InDesign document, and so I can edit text where it's better and more clear to edit (IDE), then seamlessly get it into the environment where I have maximum layout control. I haven't gotten to do this so many times that I need to write a script to automate conversion as part of my tex build, but I probably will soon for fun. Pandoc just works so well, allowing me to concentrate on making good content and not having to sweat all the annoying file conversion details. Thank you to the developers and maintainers.