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closeFormatting errors in LaTeX?
Posted by roche on 26 Dec 2014 at 09:02 GMT
Very interesting study.
I was surprised to see such a high rate of "formatting errors" in LaTeX documents. Makes me wonder about how these were judged. Is a formatting error a difference in formatting between the original and typeset texts? Or is it an error that makes the text look bad?
LaTeX, compared to Word (esp. as used by novices), assumes very little manual formatting. It is possible to make formatting errors, but you need to try hard.
Would it be possible to publish the typeset documents themselves? I would be interested in seeing the actual errors made with both typesetting systems.
RE: Formatting errors in LaTeX?
yarikoptic replied to roche on 13 Mar 2015 at 16:12 GMT
+1 on the request to publish the typeset documents since formatting issues with LaTeX is indeed quite an unexpected observation.
In my experience I saw only few "expert" Word users who would use formatting functionality provided by Word properly, thus at the end wasting LOTS of time later on manual reformatting. Thus "correct formatting" in its own statement could be very misleading and judged differently.