option to process .md files too?

[stevepowell99]

I confess to being a fan of the gitbook.io editor. I am writing a basically text-based book with it but need citations. So I was hoping for this workflow: write my book using the editor, including fragments like r citep(citation('devtools')) etc, then run Rgitbook to do the citations. But of course: the editor doesn't read .Rmd files and Rgitbook can't process .md files. Any chance of Rgitbook having an option to process .md files? Then you could fill the citations hole in gitbook but people could still use their editor ...