Hello Bento, Damian McGuckin <dami...@esi.com.au> a écrit : > Bento, > > On Tue, 21 May 2024, Bento Borges Schirmer wrote: > >> I think I will stop reproducing templates for conferences for now. > > Wise move. I just tweak my standard template every time. > >> different template, such as that of ACM! > > Mine is close to this. > >> That's the entire idea after all, right!? I'll be using defaults for >> now and worry less. > > Very wise move. > >> And then, after getting the actual research done and written, I can >> spend some time tailoring the final print, I hope to find help here :) >> :) Like how to handle all the ABNT rules for citations and references >> :( > > That is the 'refer' tool. Which is a whole new ball game. I wish I > understood it better than I do.
Refer is very powerful but may require some tweaking like Hans Bezemer did to get APA-style citations: https://www.froude.eu/groff/examples/refer-apa.html >> Now I'm thinking about writing filters and preprocessors. I dunno if >> groff or mm provide mechanisms to reference figures and headers, >> which would be handy. Unless that is the case, I'm thinking about >> writing small C programs that recognize some commands and count >> figures and headers and replace text for me when referencing them, >> something like that. I dunno I dunno. Let's see. > > The Table of Contents macro already handles Figures and Tables and > Headings. You caption each table and figure with .TB and .FG macros > respectively/ To add to what Damian said, you could look at page 121 in the Unix Text Processing book: http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/utp_book-1.1.pdf >> Whenever I search for users of groff, people frequently mention >> computer generated content, such as for business. So I guess troff >> can be used "directly" by writers, but it also suited to be easy to >> be... generated? > > Yes. We process a database to automatically generate the invoice details > which is then run through 'groff -mm' to provide the invoice on a > company letterhead. Also did an ersatz of this at my previous job to generate numbered invoices. The hardest part was finding the company logo in postscript format :D -- Thomas
