Right. Thank you very much!

Ingo Schwarze writes:

> Hello,
>
> Xianwen Chen wrote on Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 04:16:43PM +0100:
>
>> I am interested in giving _groff_ and _gpresent_ a try. I am seasoned
>> LaTeX user. Is there a tutorial that you would recommend to someone like
>> me?
>
> No, i'm not aware of tutorials (but i generally don't use tutorials,
> so maybe i missed them).  But there is good reference documentation:
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/
>
> Gpresent is a macro package specifically for presentation slides.
> The documentation is in the groff_present(7) and presentps(1)
> manual pages in the textproc/gpresent package and in the groff_mm(7)
> manual page in the textproc/groff package.
>
>> Two things that come to my mind that I am concerned with.
>> 
>> First, how does groff manage bibliography and citations?
>
> See the refer(1) utility in the textproc/groff package.
>
>> Second, peer-reviewed journals usually require submissions to be in Word
>> format or in LaTeX. Is there an easy way to convert a groff document to
>> a Word document or LaTeX?
>
> No, and there isn't even a complicated way either.  If your publisher
> requires LaTeX, use LaTeX; it's really that simple...
>
> Yours,
>   Ingo

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