I 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 conference

I 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.