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This is utter bullshit. I can't write equations for my life in Word (mainly because I hate that utter piece of shit) but I can type equations and other content in LaTeX faster than I can write it by hand - admittedly I use LyX which has hints which helps a hell of a lot, but either way - I can still beat Word and by-hand with LaTeX...

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For raw text, word and latex are equal (raw words, quotes, etc) latex and word are even in wpm. Certain areas of latex beat words in wpm (\ref, \cite) but there are many other areas where word wins.

Anything where you care about how the document loos takes time. Care about how the title page looks? Want to format the bibliography just right? These are issues all I, an intermediate user, have faced.

You can't write equations in Word simply because you hate Word. - Doesn't this tell you anything?

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