  Collaborative scientific authoring is increasingly being supported by
software tools. Traditionally, desktop-based authoring tools had the most
advanced editing features, allowed for more formatting options, and included
more import/export filters. Web-based tools have excelled in their
collaboration support. Recently, developers on both sides have been trying to
close this gap by extending desktop-based tools to better support collaboration
and by making web-based tools richer in functionality. To verify to what extent
these developments actually meet the needs of researchers, we gathered precise
requirements towards better tool support for scientific authoring and reviewing
workflows by interviewing 213 users and studying a corpus of 27 documents. We
present the design of the survey and interpret its results. The conclusion is
that WYSIWYG and offline desktop authoring tools continue to be more popular
among academics than text-based and online editors.
