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Re:The future of education is plain text by chongli on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:14PM (#14546469)
Not unless you work alone. When you work with other people, it's important to use a common format for the benefit of the group. Trying to force other people to use emacs won't win you any friends.
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Re:The future of education is plain text by gkya on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:26PM (#14547271)
Org exports to anything including utf8 plain text with a nice style reminiscent of IEEE RFCs.
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Re:The future of education is plain text by tscs37 on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @03:22PM (#14547778)
Without using Emacs Org-mode however, you're stuck with something that only you can properly enjoy and edit, so everyone who doesn't like Emacs is SOL.
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