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 :-)
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
I used a similar setup a long while ago and wanted a way to connect to databases easily. So I wrote some code to parse the MySQL and Postres config files to extract database info in Emacs: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46114944
sondr3•1h ago
[0]: https://gist.github.com/sondr3/ae4eda2816cfeda7b8597ce1c48d0..., best viewed as the raw file for all the details
adityaathalye•20m ago
[0] Discussed here recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157672