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A quick, and dirty way to produce html from a markdown 1 file is:
python -m markdown -x abbr -x footnotes -x def_list your.file.md > out.html
And with pandoc 2, you can even create PDF, or epub, if you so would desire? 3
pandoc your.file.md -o out.pdf
Benefits of LaTeX – Getting to grips with LaTeX – Andrew Roberts