[paholg]

I think a good example is all of the wonderful documentation that's been created with mdBook.

Heck, the Rust book was written with it, and they also made a print edition, so maybe markdown is enough even for that.

https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook

[steveklabnik]

Carol put in a tremendous amount of work to build tooling to go between Markdown and Docx. The publishers used the docx versions for print.

That doesn’t mean that I think Markdown is inadequate or the wrong decision, but it’s not just a “write in Markdown and you’re good” sort of situation.

[paholg]

Ah, good to know! Is that tooling public anywhere, or was it pretty tailor-made just for the Rust book?

[Terretta]

The link below (https://github.com/rust-lang/book/tree/main/tools) could imply the book was written as Word .docx with named styles, which enabled transformation into markdown for the mdBook?