I don't think time spent and performance are good metrics on the quality of the result, not meaning the output look but the quality of the work itself. Anyone t

I don't think time spent and performance are good metrics on the quality of the result, not meaning the output look but the quality of the work itself. Anyone that has spent some time on SQA knows that. For the study they used a predefined text, so there's no real way to measure if there's an inherent quality on documents created using LaTeX, or if LaTeX does something to your brain to conceptualize your ideas while you are punching them on the keyboard. Or not. > Given these numbers it remains an open question to determine the amount of > taxpayer money that is spent worldwide for researchers to use LaTeX over a > more efficient document preparation system, which would free up their time to > advance their respective field. [...] We therefore suggest that leading > scientific journals should consider accepting submissions in LaTeX only if > this is justified by the level of mathematics presented in the paper. In all > other cases, we think that scholarly journals should request authors to > submit their documents in Word or PDF format. This just sounds hasty. LaTeX may not be the tool for everybody and should not be enforced. Neither MS Word.