Re: [O] Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word

[John Kitchin]

Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> writes:

Did anyone see the parody of this here:
http://mjambon.github.io/vim-vs-emacs/

It is pretty funny!

> People here might be interested in a publication from [2014-12-19 Fri]
> available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115069
>
> Title: An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used
> in Academic Research and Development
>
> Summary: Word users are more efficient and have less errors than even
> experienced LaTeX users.
>
> Someone here should repeat experiment and add Org into the mix, perhaps
> Org -> ODT and/or Org -> LaTeX and see if it helps or hurts. I assume
> Org would trump LaTeX, but would Org -> ODT or Org -> X -> DOCX (via
> pandoc) beat straight Word?
>
>   -k.
>
>
>

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