Vim for LaTeX

I've started learning to use LaTeX for formatting and printing documents with the help of LyX, the graphical front end for LaTeX. It's occurred to me that I could use Vim to LaTeX shorter documents---letters, memos, simply formatted reports, etc.

There is one option I'm aware of---the Vim-LaTeX plugin. That might be overkill for the simple documents I have in mind. Markdown or MultiMarkdown would be simpler and MD- or MMD-coded documents would be more readable than LaTeX-coded documents even before compiling.

Is there aan MD or MMD compiler plugin for Vim? 

Thanks.

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Eric Weir

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