OK, so my fantasy #worldbuilding / #writing project notes live in a massive #Scrivener project. 164,686 words.

Now, *editing* the thing in Scrivenever is fine and good and I have no problems coming up with new stuff and just putting it there. However...!

The export process is kinda janky. At current state I can't export this to HTML, for starters. If I want a usable PDF document out of this (compiles into a 344 page document, half of which isn't even formatted right because I'm lazy and it looks OK in Scrivener side), I need to compile it into a LaTeX file via MultiMarkDown. Involves a little bit of hand-fiddling too.

It's *hhhella slow*. It's *janky*.

I really would like this to be a much more easily editable and compilable thing. With fully text-based markdown(esque) input, able to export to static HTML and PDF (via LaTeX, preferably).

Lots of options to choose from. I'm currently looking investigating #DocBook solutions. Am I mad? ...I am mad, aren't I?

Update: I think the simplest approach was to simply

1) Export the whole shebang as a MultiMarkDown document,
2) Install pandoc
3) Continue editing the worldbuilding document in MMD format in, I dunno, Visual Studio Code or something,
4) Do the MMD conversions with pandoc in the future

This has considerably less headaches actually.