From: Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>
To: Org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Efficiency of Org v. LaTeX v. Word
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:45:22 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d273o0l9.fsf@bobnewell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <549E26E9.9080900@binghamton.edu> (Christopher W. Ryan's message of "Fri, 26 Dec 2014 22:26:33 -0500")
The "study" is an obvious diatribe couched in (poorly done) scientific
method. It almost seems like these researchers have at some time been
required to use LaTeX and are angry over it.
I will agree that LaTeX is slower and less efficient than LibreOffice (I
don't have Word on any of my computers but the argument I suppose is the
same), if your only interest is pounding out text of a first draft. But
the "study" didn't allow for the effects of proofreading, etc., and all
the things that are always done when producing something for
publication. I expect that the differences in grammar and orthographic
errors will be insignificant.
A 30-minute test is ridiculous. More meaningful would have been
end-to-end time to complete a given document. Maybe then Word would have
still been faster; I don't know. But that doesn't tell the whole story
by any means, including the very important matter of long-term storage
in a non-proprietary format.
--
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-28 22:43 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 [this message]
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
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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