As stated above, I am curious to know how groff fits into people’s lives. Do you write manpages, only take notes with it, prefer it to LaTeX andor ConTeXt for text formatting, or something else entirely? Which macros do you use, if any? Let me know!
As for me, I encountered groff after already learning LaTeX, but I instantly appreciated its concise commands and began using it to take biology notes with the simple -me macro. I’m slowly expanding my usage to encompass math and graphing with eqn and grap, respectively. My needs are not always met by -me as of late, so a macro switch is in order. GNU seems most inclined to continue work on -mom, so I’ll likely switch over to that soon enough.
Four years later, do you still use groff? With
-meor-mom?I use it almost daily, weekly for sure, to create PDFs. I used LaTeX to write my PhD thesis, and it gave me a love for the WYSIWYW systems, but as I don’t write texts longer than a few pages and without much references, LaTeX was to complex and heavy for my needs. I used markdown for a time, but i needed LibreOffice for the formatting, so it wasn’t satisfactory. Groff (with
-mom) is the perfect middle ground.Yes! I’m no longer at university, so I don’t typeset equations or graph data often anymore, but I am a big fan of
-momfor typesetting other notes. I especially appreciate its split between “document processing” (semantic meaning) and “typesetting” (visual presentation) macros, which resonated with me due to its similarity to the split between HTML (semantic) & CSS (presentation).Do you mean using LibreOffice to view markdown documents with nicer presentation? I never knew LibreOffice could do that! I will admit I have grown to like markdown because I can get my coworkers to use it without too much hassle, but we use it with Wiki.js, not for its own sake.
I’m glad to hear you settled on using groff with
-mom:)No, I “translate” my .md files into .odt files using
pandoc. But I don’t do that often anymore, I prefer groff!