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- From: tony2@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (gozdz,antoni s)
- Subject: extended \*(xx sequence for .RS/.RF; is it possible?
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 21:43:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.214359.29186@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
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- I use extensively automatic reference processing
- in troff/Eroff. However, the standard implementation
- allows one to use only a two-character string to name the
- reference (I think that's the way troff was set up to
- recognize the \*( sequence, right?).
-
- It's OK when there are 10-20 references in your
- document, but the method becomes inefficient
- when I have to handle 50-100 at a time, with multiple
- occurences of the same reference (search for the name,
- go back, etc.).
-
- I'd like to use longer, more descriptive strings,
- e.g., \*(weber91a, whose length could be either
- constant (at least 6 characters) or length.
- Is it possible?
-
- Another, related question: is there an internal limit
- in troff to the number of references a single document
- may have (like the number or registers etc.)?
-
- Tony Gozdz
- tony2@cc.bellcore.com
-