I am going off-topic but I have a question for you. I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine who's into academics (2nd PhD). He's highly proficient in

I am going off-topic but I have a question for you. I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine who's into academics (2nd PhD). He's highly proficient in LaTeX/Perl/R and typeset his own papers (for publishing and for conferences) but he mentioned that researchers shouldn't do that because this is too much time consuming and it could be better done by someone trained for that: a secretary. But budget cuts ended up forcing researchers, who can hardly type with one finger (and aren't trained to use LaTex/R/etc.) , to type out their papers. Wouldn't it be better if researchers could just send a rough draft to a service that would typeset and make beautiful plots out of it ? Isn't your officemate (may I assume he is a researcher too ?) running the risk to spend too much time on formating papers (and God knows you can spend a lot of time in LaTeX and R docs) ?