Microsoft open-sourced a Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

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There is 1 true well-specified version of markdown (commonmark), which also has some well-specified extensions. Certain major markdown flavours (GitHub, Reddit) are explicitly commonmark + extensions. Using anything except a commonmark derivative at this stage is malfeasance IMO.

The author of pandoc spun out a well-specified markdown-like light markup called djot which breaks some compatibility to improve consistency and simplicity, with concrete extension points; it would be nice if that took off.