Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word

[Thomas S. Dye]

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| "One may also argue that given a well-designed LaTeX document class  
| file, document development speed and text and formatting accuracy are
| significantly improved."                                             
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Apparently, the LaTeX users didn't have the benefit of a document
class.  Hard to take a "study" like this seriously.

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| "preventing researchers from producing documents in LaTeX would save  
| time and money to maximize the benefit of research and development for
| both the research team and the public"                                
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All you have to lose is your freedom.

All the best,
Tom

Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> writes:

> People here might be interested in a publication from [2014-12-19 Fri]
> available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115069
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> Title: An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used
> in Academic Research and Development
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> Summary: Word users are more efficient and have less errors than even
> experienced LaTeX users.
>
> Someone here should repeat experiment and add Org into the mix, perhaps
> Org -> ODT and/or Org -> LaTeX and see if it helps or hurts. I assume
> Org would trump LaTeX, but would Org -> ODT or Org -> X -> DOCX (via
> pandoc) beat straight Word?
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>   -k.
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