There is "pandoc" if you folks haven't tried it, it is amazingly simple and effective and will convert from a ton of input formats (including markdown) to a ton of output formats (including html, word, whatever).
[0] My `.lessfilter` configuration: https://gist.github.com/kpschoedel/62888f552dc9d920d600166e5...
[1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/pandoc-terminal-writer