ROFFBIB

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 7, 1986
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NAME

roffbib - run off bibliographic database  

SYNOPSIS

roffbib [ -e ] [ -h ] [ -n ] [ -o ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -Tterm ] [ -x ] [ -m mac ] [ -V ] [ -Q ] [ file ... ]  

DESCRIPTION

Roffbib prints out all records in a bibliographic database, in bibliography format rather than as footnotes or endnotes. Generally it is used in conjunction with sortbib:

sortbib database | roffbib

Roffbib accepts most of the options understood by nroff(1), most importantly the -T flag to specify terminal type.

If abstracts or comments are entered following the %X field key, roffbib will format them into paragraphs for an annotated bibliography. Several %X fields may be given if several annotation paragraphs are desired. The -x flag will suppress the printing of these abstracts.

A user-defined set of macros may be specified after the -m option. There should be a space between the -m and the macro filename. This set of macros will replace the ones defined in /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.bib. The -V flag will send output to the Versatec; the -Q flag will queue output for the phototypesetter.

Four command-line registers control formatting style of the bibliography, much like the number registers of ms(7). The command-line argument -rN1 will number the references starting at one (1). The flag -rV2 will double space the bibliography, while -rV1 will double space references but single space annotation paragraphs. The line length can be changed from the default 6.5 inches to 6 inches with the -rL6i argument, and the page offset can be set from the default of 0 to one inch by specifying -rO1i (capital O, not zero). Note: with the -V and -Q flags the default page offset is already one inch.  

FILES

/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.bib  file of macros used by nroff/troff
 

SEE ALSO

refer(1), addbib(1), sortbib(1), indxbib(1), lookbib(1)  

BUGS

Users have to rewrite macros to create customized formats.


 

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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SEE ALSO
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