On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:51:42 +0200 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote:
> Hi Paul, > > Paul Swanson wrote on Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 07:09:39PM +0000: > > > Has anyone had any experience with using mandoc for report > > writing? > > I doubt that. > > > I realise it may be a silly / naive question. > > > > But in recent times I've started using groff (with grefer) to write > > academic papers, because it's relatively easy to use for my > > purposes. > > Groff is no doubt an excellent tool for that task. > Not a big surprise either because Jerry Saltzer originally > implemented RUNOFF in 1964 to typeset his thesis - and this > family of systems has been used again and again for similar > purposes during these 5 1/2 decades. > > > As such, it got me wondering if mandoc is suitable for such a > > purpose. Coincidentally, the past few days I've been researching Asciidoctor and pandoc for writing my books in both ePub and PDF format. [snip] > > + Mandoc supports converting your paper to markdown format, > just in case you want to publish in on github, too. I've heard (and this could be BS) that once you get to Markdown format, you can use Pandoc to convert that Markdown to pretty much any format you want. I don't know how true that is, or what kind of compromises you'd need to make with your control over output formatting. The OP is doing academic papers, which presumably need go only to PDF format. In that case, LaTeX, LyX, conTeXt are great choices. SteveT Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
