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

[Paul Rudin]

M <address@hidden> writes:

>> Von: Paul Rudin <address@hidden>
>> 
>> No mention of emacs... who uses anything else to prepare their LaTeX?
>> 
> Did you forget the " ;-)" or are you serious?

I wasn't being entirely serious; but I was alluding to a serious
point. You can't really compare a command line typesetting system alone
with a word processor. To make a proper comparison you'd have to look at
the complete toolchain.

For example, some of the errors are typos. Word, of course, has a speil
chucker. Did the LaTeX users use an editor that highlights such errors?

But as others have pointed out the more fundamental problem with the
study is that it tries to assess secretarial or copy-editing skills
rather than authoring skills.

(I haven't actually read the paper, just what has been said in this
thread.)