CS professor here - I use LaTeX, and my wife, also a professor in a different field, uses word. From watching both of our workflows over quite a time, a few th

CS professor here - I use LaTeX, and my wife, also a professor in a different field, uses word. From watching both of our workflows over quite a time, a few things jump out very clearly: 1) LaTeX + revision control is better for multi-user concurrent collaboration. Word + track changes can get the job done for one-person-at-a-time as might be seen more often when making revisions. (We haven't compared word+revision control). But the typical Word workflow involves emailing documents to collaborators - barf. 2) LaTeX+bibtex is better for references. As far as I've been able to tell, EndNote is a steaming pile of pain that crashes frequently and takes Word for the Mac out with it. And glitches in horrible ways. 3) Word users are more likely to get their table formatting the way they want it in less time. I hate playing that game in LaTeX. Particularly if you want fancy nested stuff that looks right, is space-efficient, etc. The study linked in this article notably omitted two of those that are quite important at least in engineering disciplines -- multi-author collaborations are the norm. But the recommendations are asinine. In the engineering and sciences, at least, the amount of time that goes into the physical preparation of the paper, seated at your computer, writing de novo text, is nothing. It's trivial. You could crank out a full-length CS paper (12 pages, 2 column, 10 point text) in a few hours, were you just limited by your typing speed and the time taken to format it. If that were the case, I'd have more papers than Erdos!