I'm preparing an academic document with several chapters. The text will eventually exist as a LaTeX document. However, I am doing my early planning and writing directly in an org file, making use of the structure elements (*, **, ***, etc) to provide structure and entering text for the relevant sections in the appropriate place.
Org is a huge project and I have not explored every aspect and every contributed extension. Is there a "best practice" approach for what I am doing? Should I write directly in LaTeX rather? Is there an easy conversion process from an outlined document to LaTeX? I know there org can export to LaTeX. Would that be the best option? It has not worked well for me previously -- page breaks appeared in the wrong place and other pages has text that flowed over the end of the page.