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Because not everyone is interested in setting up a Pandoc/Latex toolchain. Overleaf almost solved this problem but they don't support Pandoc as a frontend and want money unless you self-host.


You don't need pandoc and even less a latex(WTF does it have to do with md???) toolchain to work with markdown documents.


Sorry, I was talking about scientific writing, where you have to be able to produce PDF artefacts.

Writing in markdown and converting to .tex is actually a quite popular way of doing that these days.




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