I've live-TeXed (that is writing notes in real time during a lecture with LaTeX) before way back in college during math lectures. It was a so-so experience. Ma

I've live-TeXed (that is writing notes in real time during a lecture with LaTeX) before way back in college during math lectures. It was a so-so experience. Math lectures for me require a lot of thought to follow otherwise I quickly become lost (often I'm lost even if I try to follow along) and the added mental overhead of TeXing on the fly often times pushed me away from actually understanding what was happening in the moment. Instead I'd have to review my notes after lecture to understand what was going on. LaTeX's batch compilation was especially infuriating, because a single error could cause the whole document to stop compiling and then if I didn't have the time to correct it, it meant the rest of the lecture was going to be visually represented with an editor and only after the lecture would I go back and correct the error. On the upside it was way easier to go back and review my notes/make them presentable for others. Also, similar to the Matrix, after a while you become familiar enough with LaTeX that you don't need the rendered display anymore to read what's going on, so the non-compiling part becomes less of a problem.