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A quick scan doesn't show any reference to (La)TeX, although Mom appears to address similar needs. Such a notable absence feels deliberate -- I'd be interested
by sevensor 10y ago
A quick scan doesn't show any reference to (La)TeX, although Mom appears to address similar needs. Such a notable absence feels deliberate -- I'd be interested to know if there's an underlying philosophical difference, or an article on "why you should let Mom typeset your next paper instead of using LaTeX." (Would Mom be suitable for journal articles?)
- avian 10y agoI have never seen an academic journal or conference that would accept submission of manuscripts typeset in Groff. Even LaTeX seems ever more often to be deprecated in favor of Word documents.
- sevensor 10y agoI haven't seen it either, although if serious academic publishers are switching to Word that's only going to hasten their slide into ruin. I've seen conferences that don't ask for sources though, just PDFs. So there's no reason in principle you couldn't use groff, except that nobody does it and there's no template. I guess my question is what the experience of trying to write an academic paper with Mom would be like, compared with LaTex.