Hi Ingo
Many thanks for your inputs concerning older, but interesting tools
g/t-roff and refer(1). I didnt know them before.
-oliver
On 3 Nov 2019, at 16:41, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
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
