[jmct]

Pandoc does almost exactly what you want. Much of my academic writing is written in markdown and then pandoc converts that to LaTeX. For conference papers it doesn't work as well (due to the conferences having specific style requirements) but for notes and presentations it works wonderfully.

[hebz0rl]

You can always define a template via `--template=MyTemplate`. You just have to place the template in `.pandoc/templates/MyTemplate.[latex|html|...]`.