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Discussion on: Let's find something better than LaTeX

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Chris Pickard

for me, "something better than latex" is org-mode

it can create beautiful latex pdfs (with citations, bibtex support, formulas...) it also supports tables and rudimentary spreadsheets, and it's entirely legible as plaintext (which latex isn't unless you understand latex)

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Nick W

Here here! For those interested, watch this video:
youtube.com/watch?v=SzA2YODtgK4

There are also extensions for VS, vi, and atom, so its not just for emacs...

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Arne Babenhauserheide

same here -- and one of its strengths is that it can effortlessly go down to full LaTeX where needed.