I agree with you except for: > multi-page tables You won't be able to persuade me that's easier in LaTeX than Word! I say that as an otherwise very proficient

I agree with you except for: > multi-page tables You won't be able to persuade me that's easier in LaTeX than Word! I say that as an otherwise very proficient LaTeX user who finds himself much more productive with LaTeX than Word. As for this study, I imagine it's a question of proficiency–good LaTeX users will be better with LaTeX, and good Word users will be better with Word. I have colleagues who can only barely use LaTeX, so it takes them forever, and they'd be much better off with Word. We do all our paper collaborations using Word, for example (which drives me nuts but there we go).