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Latex users are slower than Word users and make more errors (2014)

5 points by sieste 3y ago

alpaca128 3y ago
Imho such a test should include org-mode, which can be used to produce LaTeX documents more conveniently, without limiting anything as it can be mixed with LaTeX syntax. Was a real time-saver for me in the past. Markdown + pandoc can work too but I'm not sure about how feature complete you can get with that route. > LaTeX users, however, more often report enjoying using their respective software. And this matters a lot. Word was the reason I learned LaTeX and I can imagine it's similar for some others too. Maybe I'm slower with LaTeX, not sure, but at least I feel in control and don't hate every second of it.
- stop50 3y ago
  I made a few thing in Latex and one of the things i liked about it was that i could organize my stuff & don't have to worry about the formatting. I have to change an config file? Just change it. On the next build it 's in there. Im using Ansible? Just use the same file for Ansible and the latex doc.
dchest 3y ago
Ironic: This article was republished on March 30, 2015, to correct the sizing and placement of the figures; none of the article content was changed. The publisher apologizes for the original layout errors. Did they use LaTeX or Word for this article?
WolfOliver 3y ago
I'm using MonsterWriter. It lacks some features but it is in active development.
westurner 3y ago
And neither typesetting activity results in reusable LinkedData; because it's still not possible to publish Linked Data (or indeed data and its schema) with LaTeX, or Word, or PDF. ScholarlyArticles' most relevant purpose is to link to the schema:Dataset that the presented analysis is predicated upon. ScholarlyArticle authors should consider the value of data reuse and (linked data) schema in choosing a typesetting and publishing format. Is there a better way to publish Linked Data with existing tools like LaTeX, PDF, or Word? Which support CSVW? Which support RDF/RDFa/JSON-LD? How could authors express experimental study controls with URIs; with qualified typed edges to the data (and a cryptographic signature from an IRB and the ScholarlyArticle's authors).
- westurner 3y ago
  > Is there a better way to publish Linked Data with existing tools like LaTeX, PDF, or Word? Which support CSVW? Which support RDF/RDFa/JSON-LD? - [ ] ~"How to publish Linked Data with Jupyter notebooks" #todo #LinkedReproducibility #LinkedResearch - [ ] westurner/nbmeta, jupyter*/?: Linked Data result object for notebooks; with a _repr_mimebundle_() and application/ld+json - [ ] python 3.x+ grammar: de-restrict use of the walrus assignment operator := so that users can assign to the LD dict result object and implicitly IPython.display.display() it because walrus assignment returns the object assigned (whereas normal = assignment does not return a value) - [ ] westurner/nbmeta?, JLab, jupyter-book: JSON-LD Playground widget to display and reframe JSON-LD (& maybe YAML-LD, too) - [ ] jupyterlab: schema.org notebook level bibliographic schema.org/CreativeWork metadata - [ ] jupyterlab: JS/TypeScript: JSON-LD/YAML-LD editor widget also built on codemirror like JLab or a different existing RDFJS library or? - [ ] rdflib, jupyter nb, sphinx, pygments: add YAML-LD syntax support (now that there's a W3C spec) - [ ] MyST markdown, sphinx, docutils: YAML-LD in MyST [in: code-fence attr syntax,] in order to add Linked Data to MyST Markdown documents and thus Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Books - [ ] hypothesis/h, sphinx-comments: Linked Data Annotations (within nested Markdown, like hypothesis' W3C Web Annotations support); cc re: 'MyST-LD' Markdown: quoting "@id", "@context" in YAML-LD - [ ] atomspace-like TrustValues with RDFstar/SPARQLstar (in YAML-LD because that implies JSON-LD) - [ ] dvc, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Gitea Actions,: how to add PROV RDF Linked Data metadata to workflows like DVC.org's & container+command-in-YAML approach - [ ] Microsoft/excel, Microsoft/VSCode: How to CSVW and PROV with spreadsheets and or code ; see also Excel speed-running competitons - [ ] REQ: jupyter/rtc+linkeddata/dokieli: howto integrate Jupyter notebooks with the list of specs in the dokieli README - [ ] njupyter/nbformat#?: a post- .ipynb notebook + resources spec? W3C Web Bundles have advantages including: you don't have to rewrite URLs in content saved offline like MHTML (mv $1.mhtml $1.mhtml.zip) - [ ] JupyterLab, VSCode: CoCalc - which supports Time Travel version control over notebooks, LaTeX docs, - added a TODO: ~not_editable code cell metadata item; which is more like lab notebooks in pen; but there's not GUI support in JLab or other Jupyter notebook nbformat implementations yet - [ ] Jupyter/nbformat, ipywidgets, jupyterlab,: How to save widget state: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/2465 https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/2465 > How could authors express experimental study controls with URIs; with qualified typed edges to the data (and a cryptographic signature from an IRB and the ScholarlyArticle's authors). Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ Verifiable Credential Data Integrity 1.0: Securing the Integrity of Verifiable Credential Data: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-integrity/ https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-integrity/ : > Abstract: This specification describes mechanisms for ensuring the authenticity and integrity of Verifiable Credentials and similar types of constrained digital documents using cryptography, especially through the use of digital signatures and related mathematical proofs. Because data quality, data reuse, code reuse, web standard specifications, structured data outputs with provenance metadata for partially-automated metaanalyses,; https://5stardata.info/ https://5stardata.info/
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5 points by sieste 3y ago

Imho such a test should include org-mode, which can be used to produce LaTeX documents more conveniently, without limiting anything as it can be mixed with LaTeX syntax. Was a real time-saver for me in the past. Markdown + pandoc can work too but I'm not sure about how feature complete you can get with that route. > LaTeX users, however, more often report enjoying using their respective software. And this matters a lot. Word was the reason I learned LaTeX and I can imagine it's similar for some others too. Maybe I'm slower with LaTeX, not sure, but at least I feel in control and don't hate every second of it.

stop50 3y ago
I made a few thing in Latex and one of the things i liked about it was that i could organize my stuff & don't have to worry about the formatting. I have to change an config file? Just change it. On the next build it 's in there. Im using Ansible? Just use the same file for Ansible and the latex doc.

dchest 3y ago

Ironic: This article was republished on March 30, 2015, to correct the sizing and placement of the figures; none of the article content was changed. The publisher apologizes for the original layout errors. Did they use LaTeX or Word for this article?

WolfOliver 3y ago

I'm using MonsterWriter. It lacks some features but it is in active development.

westurner 3y ago

And neither typesetting activity results in reusable LinkedData; because it's still not possible to publish Linked Data (or indeed data and its schema) with LaTeX, or Word, or PDF. ScholarlyArticles' most relevant purpose is to link to the schema:Dataset that the presented analysis is predicated upon. ScholarlyArticle authors should consider the value of data reuse and (linked data) schema in choosing a typesetting and publishing format. Is there a better way to publish Linked Data with existing tools like LaTeX, PDF, or Word? Which support CSVW? Which support RDF/RDFa/JSON-LD? How could authors express experimental study controls with URIs; with qualified typed edges to the data (and a cryptographic signature from an IRB and the ScholarlyArticle's authors).

westurner 3y ago
> Is there a better way to publish Linked Data with existing tools like LaTeX, PDF, or Word? Which support CSVW? Which support RDF/RDFa/JSON-LD? - [ ] ~"How to publish Linked Data with Jupyter notebooks" #todo #LinkedReproducibility #LinkedResearch - [ ] westurner/nbmeta, jupyter*/?: Linked Data result object for notebooks; with a _repr_mimebundle_() and application/ld+json - [ ] python 3.x+ grammar: de-restrict use of the walrus assignment operator := so that users can assign to the LD dict result object and implicitly IPython.display.display() it because walrus assignment returns the object assigned (whereas normal = assignment does not return a value) - [ ] westurner/nbmeta?, JLab, jupyter-book: JSON-LD Playground widget to display and reframe JSON-LD (& maybe YAML-LD, too) - [ ] jupyterlab: schema.org notebook level bibliographic schema.org/CreativeWork metadata - [ ] jupyterlab: JS/TypeScript: JSON-LD/YAML-LD editor widget also built on codemirror like JLab or a different existing RDFJS library or? - [ ] rdflib, jupyter nb, sphinx, pygments: add YAML-LD syntax support (now that there's a W3C spec) - [ ] MyST markdown, sphinx, docutils: YAML-LD in MyST [in: code-fence attr syntax,] in order to add Linked Data to MyST Markdown documents and thus Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Books - [ ] hypothesis/h, sphinx-comments: Linked Data Annotations (within nested Markdown, like hypothesis' W3C Web Annotations support); cc re: 'MyST-LD' Markdown: quoting "@id", "@context" in YAML-LD - [ ] atomspace-like TrustValues with RDFstar/SPARQLstar (in YAML-LD because that implies JSON-LD) - [ ] dvc, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Gitea Actions,: how to add PROV RDF Linked Data metadata to workflows like DVC.org's & container+command-in-YAML approach - [ ] Microsoft/excel, Microsoft/VSCode: How to CSVW and PROV with spreadsheets and or code ; see also Excel speed-running competitons - [ ] REQ: jupyter/rtc+linkeddata/dokieli: howto integrate Jupyter notebooks with the list of specs in the dokieli README - [ ] njupyter/nbformat#?: a post- .ipynb notebook + resources spec? W3C Web Bundles have advantages including: you don't have to rewrite URLs in content saved offline like MHTML (mv $1.mhtml $1.mhtml.zip) - [ ] JupyterLab, VSCode: CoCalc - which supports Time Travel version control over notebooks, LaTeX docs, - added a TODO: ~not_editable code cell metadata item; which is more like lab notebooks in pen; but there's not GUI support in JLab or other Jupyter notebook nbformat implementations yet - [ ] Jupyter/nbformat, ipywidgets, jupyterlab,: How to save widget state: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/2465 https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/2465 > How could authors express experimental study controls with URIs; with qualified typed edges to the data (and a cryptographic signature from an IRB and the ScholarlyArticle's authors). Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ Verifiable Credential Data Integrity 1.0: Securing the Integrity of Verifiable Credential Data: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-integrity/ https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-integrity/ : > Abstract: This specification describes mechanisms for ensuring the authenticity and integrity of Verifiable Credentials and similar types of constrained digital documents using cryptography, especially through the use of digital signatures and related mathematical proofs. Because data quality, data reuse, code reuse, web standard specifications, structured data outputs with provenance metadata for partially-automated metaanalyses,; https://5stardata.info/ https://5stardata.info/

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