[kazinator]

I tried installing it years ago (in a GNU/Linux distro, using its packages); it needed so many dependencies (like hundreds of megs), and in the end didn't work.

Total bait and switch in terms of the simplicity "sales pitch".

My expectation was that there would be some kind of script (just one, possibly all in one file) which scans the simple input syntax and outputs it into several markup formats based on some command line option.