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From: john@mplvax.UUCP (John McInerney)
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Subject: How do you use roffbib?
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Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 19:42:58 EDT
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I have a rather large bibliographic database that I want to create a
bibliography with.  Roffbib seemed to me to be exactly what the doctor
ordered.  Its manual page says:

	Roffbib prints out all records in a bibliographic database,
	in bibliography format ...

I dutifully, as instructed, ran my bibliographic database through as
follows:

	sortbib database | roffbib

but what comes out still has all of the %A, %R, %I's left in it.  Roffbib
is merely a shell script to call refer with -B.  The refer manual says:

	The input file (or standard input) is copied to standard output,
	except for lines between .[ and .] delimiters,...

So, of course, all of the %A, %R, %I's are left in since a bibliographic
database (ala addbib) does not have a .[ or .] in it.  How does one use
roffbib to create a bibliography?

					John McInerney
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