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I used LiterateMarkdown [1] to write a PhD thesis in Markdown with reasonable success. It's main feature is being able to read Jupyter notebooks and include computations and plots using R, python and Groovy inline, so pretty handy for a thesis with lots of data analysis.

A beauty of using Pandoc is you can translate to Word for people who insist on that for review / edit / comments.

One tip: on OSX I use Skim as the PDF previewer. It is not a particularly great or special PDF viewer except for one thing: it does live update of the PDF without shifting the position of the page, even if you are zoomed in etc. This means you can work on a section iteratively and watch it update live as you work, which is pretty handy for proof-reading what you are writing.

[1] https://bit.ly/2XzTpSy [2] https://skim-app.sourceforge.io/