ema-template VS pandoc

This is what the GitHub Pages CI does.

The resulting Markdown is passed to pandoc to convert it to HTML

To be fair, one there's a good one there's much less incentive to write something new. In this case the good converter is Pandoc: https://pandoc.org/

There are a handful of excellent command-line tools, and Pandoc comes to mind. It is not just a one-trick pony, too. With Pandoc you can convert between many different formats.

I’ll be using the Template Toolkit to build the site, with a sprinkling of Bootstrap to make it look half-decent. Because there is a lot of Markdown-to-HTML conversion, I’ll use my Template::Provider::Pandoc module which uses Pandoc to convert templates into different formats.

So happy that it continues to grow in popularity. Draw is probably their best tool in the suite. Also related, people might be interested in using Xournal (https://xournalpp.github.io/) for PDF manipulations and pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) for general document conversion.

The other ones most people point to are https://pandoc.org and https://shellcheck.net

Pandoc (https://pandoc.org) can be used to convert a .docx file to markdown and other file formats like djot and typst. I don't think pandoc can convert powerpoint and excel files.

wget https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/3.5/pandoc-3.5-1-arm64.deb sudo dpkg -i pandoc-3.5-1-arm64.deb

Send your publisher a .docx file made by converting a .md using Pandoc:

https://pandoc.org/

I used to work in publishing --- Word docs were hacked at by editors since it was their standard tool, then they would get flowed into PageMaker, or Quark XPress, or Ventura Publisher, or Adobe InDesign --- except of course for the LaTeX docs.

For .docx, the converted file is fine, so long as it has all the text and bold/italics which the author wants.