On 03/03/2012, Alexsander Rosa <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem with "secretary's editors" like MS Word or Open/LibreOffice is > that they waste user's time with formatting and other non-content related > activities. With LaTeX and derivatives such as LyX, the user is free to be > productive. When I was working on my MSc paper, ages ago, I wrote some 40 > pages in two months on Word, then converted it to LyX and created 40 more > pages in just one week. >
I have used LaTeX and OpenOffice many many published articles and technical papers, project specifications etc. I can honestly say, in my experience LaTeX just made me slower. I had to fight to figure out how to get certain text to display correctly, because it was constantly some or other reserved LaTeX tag some something. As for OpenOffice. I have created years ago various templates for all the different type of documents I need. They are all designed with Styles. So no, I don't have to think about formatting either, just what is the structure I am currenty typing, and apply the correct (already available style to it). My documents are well layed out and formatted, with very little effort from my end. I tend to write articles in 2 days (evenings really) and they normally consist of so 11-18 pages. Writting speed (meaning getting content from your head to the computer / paper) is not affected by the editor you use. Well, not in my case. I write paragraphs as I think of ideas. Then once done, I go back and rearrange chapters, paragraphs etc and double click on the relevent Style to apply them. I guess each writter works differently. Regards, Graeme. _______________________________________________ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
