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From: Daniele Pizzolli <dan@toel.it>
To: Org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 14:37:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bnmpxlh6.fsf@me.localhost.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2h9wi6nas.fsf@gmail.com> (Ken Mankoff's message of "Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:47:39 -0500")

Hello,

Ken Mankoff writes:

> 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.

As other said, the efficiency in the paper is about the manual copy of a
small portion of text, tables...  This is a little bit different to
publish a research, maybe a reproducible one, with the help of a team.

> 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?

Repeating a flawed experiment do not add a lot of value...

Best,
Daniele

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-27 13:37 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
2014-12-27 13:37 ` Daniele Pizzolli [this message]
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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