\documentclass{book} \usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex} \ifxetex \usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainlanguage{english} \usepackage{fontspec} \else\ifluatex \usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainlanguage{english} \usepackage{fontspec} \else \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \fi\fi \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage[ hashEnumerators, definitionLists, footnotes, inlineFootnotes, smartEllipses, fencedCode, contentBlocks, pipeTables, tableCaptions, ]{markdown} \begin{document} % Typeset the document `example.md` by letting the Markdown package handle % the conversion internally. \markdownInput{./example.md} % Typeset the document `example.tex` that we prepared separately using the % Lua command-line interface of the Markdown package and that contains a % plain TeX representation of the document `example.md`. \InputIfFileExists{./example.tex}{}{} \begin{markdown} Here are some non-ASCII characters: *ěščřžýáíé*. \end{markdown} \end{document}