Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) is also very good, allowing you to embed LaTeX inside markdown. So you might do

Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) is also very good, allowing you to embed LaTeX inside markdown. So you might do The greek for the letter _A_ is $\alpha$ mashing up the simple markup for bold, italic, lists, headers, and quotes from markdown with the more fully-featured LaTeX support for equations.