Pandoc

This is your go-to for converting documents between formats without wrestling with export dialogs. It wraps pandoc with battle-tested commands for the most common conversions: markdown to Word, PDF, or HTML, plus reverse trips back to markdown. The real value is in the details it gets right, like using GitHub Flavored Markdown mode to prevent lists from collapsing into paragraphs, providing CSS that makes HTML output actually readable, and documenting which PDF engine handles Unicode characters. If you've ever needed to get markdown into Google Docs with formatting intact or generate a PDF without installing 4GB of LaTeX tools, the documented workarounds here will save you an hour of trial and error.