I built a tool to generate academic PDFs from Markdown without installing LaTeX on your system. LaTeX, Pandoc, and all dependencies run isolated inside a Docker container. The tool works via command line, but you don't need to memorize any commands. It's similar to using btop or htop in the terminal: you open it, navigate with the arrow keys, choose options from the menus, and press a key to execute. No mouse, no syntax to memorize. If you've used any of those tools in the terminal before, you already know how to use it. If you've ever tried to deliver a research paper formatted in IEEE or APA style, you probably know the pain. You install a 4 GB LaTeX distribution. You spend hours reading documentation for packages nobody has updated since the early 2000s. You try to compile. You get a 200-line error log that looks like it was written in another language. You give up and format it manually in Word. That cycle repeated itself one more time than I was willing to tolerate. So I built Mark2TeX.…