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		Nullabillity on Aug 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pandoc Why not use Org's built-in org->latex->pdf exporter? AFAIK Pandoc isn't compatible with many of the more interesting Org features, such as Babel.

tonyarkles on Aug 29, 2018 [–]

That's a good question! The flow started out as markdown->latex->pdf via pandoc, and then when I got back into Org, it just slid right into that workflow to replace Markdown.

I'm curious now though... maybe I'm missing out!

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