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Though I don't really like you advertising, thank you for the suggestion. As a computer science researcher I'll give you some feedback why your application is a total deal-breaker for me and my colleagues:

* It's not running on Linux. Nobody in our department runs windows or mac.

* We already have huge BibTex citation libraries that we use in papers and just reference the necessary papers. These citation library files grow and grow. I won't manually add citations for each paper.

* We collaborate and version through git. If collaborative writing and version control does not work at least as easy as our plaintext-git-handling, that's a hard no.

* You do know that for conference or journal submission word and LaTeX templates with given page limits in these templates are given, right? How would I use, say, LNCS in MonsterWriter? Writing seems not to be page-based. How do I know that I'm over the limit?

* My wife is a researcher in the social sciences, and they extensively use MS Word's change tracking and merging feature to write papers. If MonsterWriter does not support this in an accessible and visually appealing manner, it would be a hard no for her as well.

With your feature set, you're not really targeting researchers, even if you think you do.




Thank you for your time to answer, very much appreciated :)




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