roffbib(1) roffbib(1)NAME roffbib - run off bibliographic database SYNOPSIS roffbib [-e] [-h] [-n] [-o] [-r] [-s] [-Tterm] [-x] [-m mac] [-V] [-Q] [file...] DESCRIPTION roffbib prints out all records in a bibliographic database, in bibliography format rather than as footnotes or endnotes. Generally it is used in conjunction with sortbib: sortbib database | roffbib roffbib accepts most of the flag options understood by nroff(1); most importantly, -T which specifies terminal type. If abstracts or comments are entered following the %X field key, roffbib will format them into paragraphs for an anno- tated bibliography. Several %X fields may be given if several annotation paragraphs are desired. The -x flag op- tion will suppress the printing of these abstracts. A user-defined set of macros may be specified after the -m flag option. There should be a space between the -m and the macro filename. This set of macros will replace the ones defined in /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.bib. The -V flag option will send output to the Versatec printer/plotter; the -Q flag op- tion will queue output for the phototypesetter. Four command-line registers control formatting style of the bibliography, much like the number registers of ms(5). The command-line argument -rN1 will number the references start- ing at one (1). The flag -rV2 will double space the bi- bliography, while -rV1 will double space references but sin- gle space annotation paragraphs. The line length can be changed from the default 6.5 inches to 6 inches with the - rL6i argument, and the page offset can be set from the de- fault of 0 to one inch by specifying -rO1i (capital O, not zero). Note: with the -V and -Q flags, the default page offset is already one inch. FILES /usr/ucb/roffbib /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.bib April, 1990 1
roffbib(1) roffbib(1)SEE ALSO addbib(1), indxbib(1), lookbib(1), nroff(1), refer(1), sort- bib(1). BUGS Users have to rewrite macros to create customized formats. 2 April, 1990