prerequisite: installing kramdown http://kramdown.gettalong.org/installation.html
using the binary "kramdown", we can easily markdown (kramdown, default) or html to html (default), kramdown, latex, or remove_html_tags
for example:
kramdown test.md >test.html
or to latex:
kramdown -o latex --template document test.md >test.tex
for detailed instructions, see http://kramdown.gettalong.org/converter/latex.html