On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 04:29:10PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > Andrew G. Malis <agmalis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The request is to go from Kramdown to text in one step, no > > intermediate xml files required. > > But, the XML is now the canonical form, so we really want that. +1. I don't mind (and even have authored[0]) tools that convert from some other format to XML, but I very much mind not having XML as the canonical form. Even if there is/were a better format to choose as the canaonical one, at this point the cost of switching woul dbe too high, so let's not even go there. Nico [0] lyx2rfc.