File formats can be a pain to work with, and you definitely don’t want to copy and paste documents between programs. Pandoc is a powerful tool that allows you to convert your text documents between a huge range of formats on the fly. With Pandoc, you can write it once, and convert it for every platform and program you can think of.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-convert-document-filetypes-with-pandoc-in-linux