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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
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                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)roffbib.1   6.2 (Berkeley) 5/7/86
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH ROFFBIB 1 "May 7, 1986"
                      8: .UC 5
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: roffbib \- run off bibliographic database
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B roffbib
                     13: [
                     14: .B \-e
                     15: ] [
                     16: .B \-h
                     17: ] [
                     18: .B \-n
                     19: ] [
                     20: .B \-o
                     21: ] [
                     22: .B \-r
                     23: ] [
                     24: .B \-s
                     25: ] [
                     26: .BI \-T term
                     27: ] [
                     28: .B \-x
                     29: ] [
                     30: .B \-m
                     31: .I mac
                     32: ] [
                     33: .B \-V
                     34: ] [
                     35: .B \-Q
                     36: ] [ file ... ]
                     37: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     38: .I Roffbib
                     39: prints out all records in a bibliographic database,
                     40: in bibliography format rather than as footnotes or endnotes.
                     41: Generally it is used in conjunction with
                     42: .IR sortbib :
                     43: .LP
                     44: .RS
                     45: sortbib  database | roffbib
                     46: .RE
                     47: .LP
                     48: .I Roffbib
                     49: accepts most of the options understood by
                     50: .IR nroff (1),
                     51: most importantly the
                     52: .B \-T
                     53: flag to specify terminal type.
                     54: .PP
                     55: If abstracts or comments are entered following the %X field key,
                     56: .I roffbib
                     57: will format them into paragraphs for an annotated bibliography.
                     58: Several %X fields may be given if several
                     59: annotation paragraphs are desired.
                     60: The
                     61: .B \-x
                     62: flag will suppress the printing of these abstracts.
                     63: .PP
                     64: A user-defined set of macros
                     65: may be specified after the
                     66: .B \-m
                     67: option.
                     68: There should be a space between the
                     69: .B \-m
                     70: and the macro filename.
                     71: This set of macros will replace the ones
                     72: defined in /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.bib.
                     73: The
                     74: .B \-V
                     75: flag will send output to the Versatec; the
                     76: .B \-Q
                     77: flag will queue output for the phototypesetter.
                     78: .PP
                     79: Four command-line registers control formatting style
                     80: of the bibliography, much like the number registers of
                     81: .IR ms (7).
                     82: The command-line argument
                     83: .BR \-r N1
                     84: will number
                     85: the references starting at one (1).
                     86: The flag
                     87: .BR \-r V2
                     88: will double space the biblio\%graphy,
                     89: while
                     90: .BR \-r V1
                     91: will double space references
                     92: but single space annotation paragraphs.
                     93: The line length can be changed from the default 6.5 inches
                     94: to 6 inches with the
                     95: .BR \-r L6i
                     96: argument,
                     97: and the page offset can be set from the default of 0
                     98: to one inch by specifying
                     99: .BR \-r O1i
                    100: (capital O, not zero).
                    101: Note: with the
                    102: .B \-V
                    103: and
                    104: .B \-Q
                    105: flags
                    106: the default page offset is already one inch.
                    107: .SH FILES
                    108: .ta \w'/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.bib\0\0'u
                    109: .nf
                    110: /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.bib file of macros used by \fInroff/troff\fP
                    111: .fi
                    112: .SH SEE ALSO
                    113: refer(1), addbib(1), sortbib(1), indxbib(1), lookbib(1)
                    114: .SH BUGS
                    115: Users have to rewrite macros
                    116: to create customized formats.

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