Over the years, I have gradually moved from R Markdown to Pandoc’s Markdown when writing documents that require fancy features such as citations and cross-references. R Markdown (and Quarto) is great, especially when the written piece involves a lot of code, but I often found it more efficient to split between the tasks of programming and writing (e.g., plotting with external scripts and then referencing the charts in the document). Furthermore, Pandoc’s functionality is sufficient for my needs. In fact, I sometimes find Pandoc too powerful—once in a while, I come across …