I would be delighted to be able to use markdown for simple documents and extrude to TeX/LaTeX to pretty-print hardcopy. LaTeX is a lot nicer than battling Word

I would be delighted to be able to use markdown for simple documents and extrude to TeX/LaTeX to pretty-print hardcopy. LaTeX is a lot nicer than battling Word, but (especially when accents are involved) a lot less nice than Markdown for most simple documents; pandoc seems to be the best answer to this problem at the moment.