Re: More on writing academic papers

[Damian McGuckin]

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.

> 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/

> 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.

- Damian