I'm afraid pandoc won't be considered suckless by most of the list, but I would double Nick's recommendation: pandoc is the only tool that eventually worked reliably for my tasks.
Escpecially in corporative environment, I appreciate that I can convert
accross formats,even to docx and import to / export from google docs.
Actually, I prepare also my talks with a chain of
[markdown and tex mix] --pandoc--> pdf
unless they are reasonably simple to fit in `sent`.
--s
