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6 roffbib - run off bibliographic database
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9 roffbib [ -e ] [ -h ] [ -n ] [ -o ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -Tterm ] [ -x ] [
10 -m mac ] [ -V ] [ -Q ] [ file ... ]
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13 Roffbib prints out all records in a bibliographic database, in bibliog‐
14 raphy format rather than as footnotes or endnotes. Generally it is
15 used in conjunction with sortbib:
16 sortbib database | roffbib
18 Roffbib accepts most of the options understood by nroff(1), most impor‐
20 tantly the -T flag to specify terminal type.
21 If abstracts or comments are entered following the %X field key, roff‐
23 bib will format them into paragraphs for an annotated bibliography.
24 Several %X fields may be given if several annotation paragraphs are
25 desired. The -x flag will suppress the printing of these abstracts.
26 A user-defined set of macros may be specified after the -m option.
28 There should be a space between the -m and the macro filename. This
29 set of macros will replace the ones defined in
30 /usr/share/tmac/tmac.bib. The -V flag will send output to the Ver‐
31 satec; the -Q flag will queue output for the phototypesetter.
32 Four command-line registers control formatting style of the bibliogra‐
34 phy, much like the number registers of ms(7). The command-line argu‐
35 ment -rN1 will number the references starting at one (1). The flag
36 -rV2 will double space the bibliography, while -rV1 will double space
37 references but single space annotation paragraphs. The line length can
38 be changed from the default 6.5 inches to 6 inches with the -rL6i argu‐
39 ment, and the page offset can be set from the default of 0 to one inch
40 by specifying -rO1i (capital O, not zero). Note: with the -V and -Q
41 flags the default page offset is already one inch.
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44 /usr/share/tmac/tmac.bib file of macros used by nroff/troff
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47 refer(1), addbib(1), sortbib(1), indxbib(1), lookbib(1)
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514.2 Berkeley Distribution October 22, 1996 ROFFBIB(1)