General ⇒ Time Exposure for writing Documents

[maxmax]

Hi community,

I have got a rather strange question :

How much time would you expect you need to write one page of 1/3 text and 2/3(rather) complex formulas like e.g. such a page? (in case you have a hand written draft already)

Thanks,
Max

[localghost]

That strongly depends on your LaTeX experience and your skills at the keyboard. And also a little bit on the tools in form of additional packages.


Thorsten

[maxmax]

No additional tools/ just typing plain LaTeX code...
Would one hour be a realistic amount of time?

The reason i'm asking is that my prof assumed that it would be possible to write a ~80 page long hand-written script in about 80 hours including many figures which have to be drawn. Currently, including frequntly looking up some LaTeX stuff, i need about 1 hour for one handwritten page, or 1.5 hours for one pdf-page; excluding figures. Now I am wondering if I am much too slow or whatsoever. I'm scared he'd think i did not work all the time i was supposed to.

I am sure some of you have also written some scripts. It would be nice to hear what your experience was.

Greetings
Max

[localghost]

With tools I didn't mean external software, but only LaTeX packages which shorten the stuff to type, thus make typesetting easier. But even without and based on my experience I would say a quarter up to a half of an hour per page under the conditions you mentioned for text and formulas. As I already mentioned, it depends on how familiar you are with the LaTeX syntax. If you instantly know what to type when seeing e. g. a partial derivative, it will take less time than always looking into a book to find the right syntax.