Hello,

Ken Mankoff 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
>
> Title: An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used
> in Academic Research and Development
>
> Summary: Word users are more efficient and have less errors than even
> experienced LaTeX users.

As other said, the efficiency in the paper is about the manual copy of a
small portion of text, tables...  This is a little bit different to
publish a research, maybe a reproducible one, with the help of a team.

> 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?

Repeating a flawed experiment do not add a lot of value...

Best,
Daniele


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