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Yeah but you don’t get to be as insufferably smug if you use Word. So, you know. Costs and benefits.
Ouch! "On most measures, expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users. LaTeX users, however, more often…
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LaTex is objectively worse than Microsoft Word
Do you prefer to use Word or LaTeX to prepare your academic documents? Scribendi accepts both file types, so whichever your…
LaTex slows you down ... (but, LaTex users have more fun ...).
Some people love their LaTeX. I tried it for a while, but now I do everything in Pages. I get more control, and nothing's that…
Die ewige Streitfrage: Soll man LaTeX oder Word für seine Abschlussarbeit verwenden? Zumindest in Hinblick auf die Effizienz…
Retweeted Daria (@DariaEvdo): Research: "On most measures, expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users.…
Hahahahaha. My advisor is going to be so pissed. www.plosone.org
So, you think you are the shit 'cause you use LaTeX? www.plosone.org
LaTex or Word. Get your answers here -> www.plosone.org
I've been gradually coming to the conclusion that this whole LaTeX obsession has more to do with pretension and culture than it…
LaTex is slower than MS Word. Surprised. journals.plos.org
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"We show that LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting…
I guess Knuth should have just kept working on The Art of Computer Programming. www.plosone.org
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LaTeX users may suffer a loss in productivity when LaTeX is used (journals.plos.org) journals.plos.org
LaTeX users may suffer a loss in productivity when LaTeX is used (Discussion on HN - http://bit.ly/1ygtfkx) www.plosone.org
Latex or Word? www.plosone.org
So here is your daily garbage paper. Conclusion: if your "science" is copywriting text within a 30 min timeframe, then use MS…
I guess it is fair to expect a heated discussion on this topic: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.po…
AHEM.... www.plosone.org
I started in LaTex and switched to Word years ago ... "The choice of an efficient document preparation system is an important…
"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war" "We show that LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the…
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So, this is making the rounds on Twitter at the moment, and it seems it has caused quite the uproar. This article makes the…
I was definitely on the novice side. But this is interesting. www.plosone.org
"However, our study suggests that LaTeX should be used as a…
"However, our study suggests that LaTeX should be used as a document preparation system only in cases in which a document is…
LaTeX vs. Word!! 1. LaTeX users are slower than Word users. 2. LaTeX users suffer a loss in productivity. 3. Yet, LaTeX users…
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 Latex vs Word (download pdf for ease of reading…
“We show that LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting…
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Said it before, and I'll say it again... www.plosone.org
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LaTeX vs MS Word www.plosone.org
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I knew it )) "To assist the research community, we report a software usability study in which 40 researchers across different…
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PLOS ONE article finds that LaTeX users go slower and make more mistakes than MS Word users, but they like their software more.
Word rules! "We conclude that even experienced LaTeX users may suffer a loss in productivity when LaTeX is used, relative to…
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LaTeX users are slower, make more mistakes, and are happier than Word users (plosone.org) www.plosone.org
I knew it! journals.plos.org
"LaTeX users are slower, make more mistakes, and are happier than Word users" www.plosone.org
LaTeX users are slower, make more mistakes, and are happier than Word users Comments --By on www.plosone.org
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I knew it! Dr. Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson deserves a tag... www.plosone.org
Hmmm... Latex vs word for academic writing. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 journals.pl…
oh no! i thought latex was the best. i do like the way it arranges figures and such automatically for you though :/ www.plosone…
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I have a half-written system along the lines of LaTeX but in Python, so that you don't have to learn a new syntax just to…
I skimmed, but the TL;DR version seems to be that unless the paper or thesis you're writing has a butt-ton of equations in it…
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Make a lot of sense! journals.plos.org
Microsoft 1 : LaTeX 0 www.plosone.org
Please please make an effort to free ourselves from Microsoft monopoly. There are superior stuffs outside this monopolistic…
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Ouch: LaTeX is more enjoyable but much less productive than Word http://t.co/k8oHweCHeD
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For all my 'harder is better' friends out there. www.plosone.org
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"many LaTeX users produce documents with external text editors such as TeXnicCenter, LaTeX Editor, Kile, or WinEdit because…
LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting…
Microsoft word vs.
Anecdotally, this is 100% true. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0115069 www.plosone.org
Microsoft Word is more efficient than LaTeX for most tasks. I think Office is generally underrated. journals.plos.org
Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems – LaTeX and Word (plosone.org) www.plosone.org
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To the surprise of no one: expert LaTeX users are slower and make more errors than novice Microsoft Word users (unless it's…
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How can someone perform worse than novice Word users? www.plosone.org
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Sean Kelley Andrey Dotsenko Austin Ross Ben Chonigman take that latex folk www.plosone.org
LaTeX takes a hit! www.plosone.org
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What?!! "We show that LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more…
I solemnly swear to migrate off latex. www.plosone.org
From Giessen! Via Hedderik van Rijn. www.plosone.org
Interesting, and not entirely surprising. LaTeX wins by a small margin when there are equations, and loses otherwise. Having…
"We show that LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting…
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0115069 There seem to be two fundamental flaws in the experiments: …
The authors are obviously users of Microsoft software, and they devised a study that would demonstrate the "superiority" of…