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

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