Is it possible to use GNU/Emacs as an alternative of Libreoffice Writer/Ms Word/OnlyOffice?

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  • org-ref

    org-mode modules for citations, cross-references, bibliographies in org-mode and useful bibtex tools to go with it.

    HOWEVER, when authoring academic texts, org-mode's Achilles heel is its lack of unified and well-integrated citation processing. The main problem being the lack of a native org-mode citation syntax that works well both within org-mode (and org-roam) and with all export formats and citation styles. Yes, there is org-ref which works well for certain fields in the sciences, but its documentation explicitly states that "is not easy (maybe not possible) to extend this [sc. pre/post text support] for the humanities style of citations". There is some renewed work in progress in this matter (search the emacs-orgmode list for "wip-cite"). I think it has great potential to remedy the situation, but it's just not there yet.

  • org-roam

    Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

    I am in academia (humanities) and use org-mode for time and task management and org-roam for note taking and knowledge management. Org-mode is a very mature tool and allows you to learn about its features and integrate them into your workflow step-by-step. Org-roam is still rather new and not yet as stable or as well-documented, but enough so for my needs. I had used Vim with LaTeX and later Markdown for over twenty years and switched to Emacs (with evil-mode) about five years ago because of org-mode; an additional incentive was the support for right-to-left languages in Emacs).

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  • pandoc

    Universal markup converter

    If you author academic papers with lots references I urge you to take a look at Pandoc. It integrates a citeproc using csl styles and takes a number of sources for bibliographic data, including bibtex. It exports org-mode files to a plethora of formats for papers and presentations (for pandoc org-mode specifics check here).

  • github-orgmode-tests

    This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

    I am in academia (humanities) and use org-mode for time and task management and org-roam for note taking and knowledge management. Org-mode is a very mature tool and allows you to learn about its features and integrate them into your workflow step-by-step. Org-roam is still rather new and not yet as stable or as well-documented, but enough so for my needs. I had used Vim with LaTeX and later Markdown for over twenty years and switched to Emacs (with evil-mode) about five years ago because of org-mode; an additional incentive was the support for right-to-left languages in Emacs).

  • ox-pandoc

    Another org-mode exporter via pandoc.

    Can also export directly to word through pandoc as well; there's a package ox-pandoc, which lets you do just that, and you can even include a reference document in case you need to have custom styles added to it.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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