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From: Paul Rudin <paul-sqPYmOVXOov10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:19:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sifvwuky.fsf@rudin.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D0C44A59.21E88%Elwood151@web.de

M <Elwood151-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org> writes:

>> Von: Paul Rudin <paul-sqPYmOVXOov10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org>
>> 
>> No mention of emacs... who uses anything else to prepare their LaTeX?
>> 
> Did you forget the " ;-)" or are you serious?

I wasn't being entirely serious; but I was alluding to a serious
point. You can't really compare a command line typesetting system alone
with a word processor. To make a proper comparison you'd have to look at
the complete toolchain.

For example, some of the errors are typos. Word, of course, has a speil
chucker. Did the LaTeX users use an editor that highlights such errors?

But as others have pointed out the more fundamental problem with the
study is that it tries to assess secretarial or copy-editing skills
rather than authoring skills.

(I haven't actually read the paper, just what has been said in this
thread.)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-31 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-26 22:47 Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word Ken Mankoff
2014-12-26 23:36 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-12-27  2:21   ` briangpowell .
2014-12-27 14:36     ` Eric S Fraga
2014-12-27  3:26 ` Christopher W. Ryan
2014-12-28 22:45   ` Bob Newell
2014-12-27  4:27 ` Nick Dokos
2014-12-27  9:06   ` Peter Neilson
2014-12-27 14:38     ` Eric S Fraga
2014-12-27  9:48 ` Achim Gratz
2014-12-27 10:05 ` Paul Rudin
2014-12-27 10:36   ` M
2014-12-27 11:36     ` Fabrice Popineau
2014-12-28 22:43       ` Pascal Fleury
2014-12-31 18:19     ` Paul Rudin [this message]
2014-12-27 13:37 ` Daniele Pizzolli
2014-12-28 21:40 ` Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word ---LOOK AT THE DATA! Christophe Pouzat
2014-12-29 19:47   ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-12-31 16:59   ` Colin Baxter
2015-01-04 20:38 ` Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word John Kitchin
2015-01-04 21:15   ` Andreas Leha

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