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обрабатывать библиографические ссылки для groff (process bibliographic references for groff)

Имя (Name)

refer - process bibliographic references for groff


Синопсис (Synopsis)

refer [-benCPRS] [-a n] [-B field.macro] [-c fields] [-f n] [-i fields] [-k field] [-l range-expression] [-p database- file] [-s fields] [-t n] [file ...]

refer --help

refer -v refer --version


Описание (Description)

The GNU implementation of refer is part of the groff(1) document formatting system. refer is a troff(1) preprocessor that prepares bibilographic citations by looking up keywords specified in a roff(7) input document, obviating the need to type such annotations, and permitting the citation style in formatted output to be altered independently and systematically. It copies the contents of each file to the standard output stream, except that it interprets lines between .[ and .] as citations to be translated into groff input, and lines between .R1 and .R2 as instructions regarding how citations are to be processed. Normally, refer is not executed directly by the user, but invoked by specifying the -R option to groff(1). If no file operands are given on the command line, or if file is '-', the standard input stream is read.

Each citation specifies a reference. The citation can specify a reference that is contained in a bibliographic database by giving a set of keywords that only that reference contains. Alternatively it can specify a reference by supplying a database record in the citation. A combination of these alternatives is also possible.

For each citation, refer can produce a mark in the text. This mark consists of some label which can be separated from the text and from other labels in various ways. For each reference it also outputs groff(7) language commands that can be used by a macro package to produce a formatted reference for each citation. The output of refer must therefore be processed using a suitable macro package, such as me, mm, mom, or ms. The commands to format a citation's reference can be output immediately after the citation, or the references may be accumulated, and the commands output at some later point. If the references are accumulated, then multiple citations of the same reference will produce a single formatted reference.

The interpretation of lines between .R1 and .R2 as prepreocessor commands is a new feature of GNU refer. Documents making use of this feature can still be processed by AT&T refer just by adding the lines .de R1 .ig R2 .. to the beginning of the document. This will cause troff(1) to ignore everything between .R1 and .R2. The effect of some commands can also be achieved by options. These options are supported mainly for compatibility with AT&T refer. It is usually more convenient to use commands.

refer generates .lf requests so that file names and line numbers in messages produced by commands that read refer output will be correct; it also interprets lines beginning with .lf so that file names and line numbers in the messages and .lf lines that it produces will be accurate even if the input has been preprocessed by a command such as soelim(1).