I recently had good luck writing a paper in org-mode. The .tex export has been around forever but I never really played with it - unlike other Emacs users, I don't actually use org-mode that much.

But in the end, it worked surprisingly well. Mind you, I didn't have anything too fancy in the paper (no figures, minipages, tikz, etc...), so that made the task very easy. But it was a good workflow:

  - Write org-mode text in left buffer.
  - Have Emacs issue a .tex export on save.
  - Have the document automatically compile when .tex files are newer than the .pdf file
  - Have the right buffer show and automatically reload the pdf file.

That made it so I could just write stuff in the left buffer and on save, the pdf in the right buffer would update and reflect the last changes. I found that a quite pleasant setup.

▲ laszlokorte 14 hours ago | parent [-]

With typst its fast enough to update the pdf/png/svg preview while you are typing, instead of waiting 0.x seconds when hitting save :)

	▲	kleiba 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I know, it's pretty cool... because, frankly, who's got that much time to waste??