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sondr3 • yesterday at 8:47 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I used Org Mode for all mandatory assignments [0] when I was a student, it worked super well and I could create well formatted LaTeX documents/PDFs from it as well. The supervisors were very impressed that I did my assignment in LaTeX, and I could never be bothered to correct them :-)

[0]: https://gist.github.com/sondr3/ae4eda2816cfeda7b8597ce1c48d0..., best viewed as the raw file for all the details

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adityaathalye • yesterday at 9:56 AM

Very much this. In fact, I had made a note about earning "professor points", in my (giant) blog post [0] describing my org-mode use...

   6. Professor Points: I also get intermediate tex output for free,
      which I don't need, but may please you if you are a professor
      (or said professor's hopelessly sleep derived grad students).
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[0] Discussed here recently:

  Why and How I use “Org Mode” for my writing and more (2022) (evalapply.org)
  217 points by sebg | 6 months ago | 64 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157672
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schonfinkel • yesterday at 1:11 PM

Kudos to you, my biggest regret nowadays was not learning how to use orgmode (and org-roam) in college. As long as you set up a proper environment and have an org-publish config you barely need to bother with verbose LaTeX documents.

https://www.orgroam.com/