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What about LaTeX, the tool of choice for most of academia?

• markgall 11y ago
  Yeah, LaTeX pretty much covers this out of the box. Throw in bibtex and git and the bibliographic stuff and collaboration is done too, and probably done better. I guess this misses "cut-and-paste is replaced with drop-n-drag", but you could probably find a text editor that does that if you want. Throw in emacs+auctex and latexdiff and I'm staying put for the time being.
• therobot24 11y ago
  if they acknowledged LaTeX it wouldn't be a very good advertisement for their system
• bediger4000 11y ago
  The only serious study comparing LaTex and "Word" that I know of: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... Using LaTex is less efficient than using "Word", according to this study. LaTex users are reported as more satisfied than "Word" users, however, which goes along with the results of this study: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.418.4737 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.418.... That is, efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction are rarely all measured in the same experiment, and when they are, they don't correlate.
  • bediger4000 11y ago
    PS - I don't believe this study for a minute.
    • markgall 11y ago
      A lot of people didn't believe it when it came out either; various debunkings of this were posted back at the time. The task was to reproduce a (formatted) page as quickly as possible -- obviously not what LaTeX is designed for.