bsd man page for roffbib

ROFFBIB(1)						      General Commands Manual							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 options understood by nroff(1), most importantly the -T flag to specify terminal type.

       If abstracts or comments are entered following the %X field key, roffbib will format them into paragraphs for  an  annotated  bibliography.
       Several %X fields may be given if several annotation paragraphs are desired.  The -x flag will suppress the printing of these abstracts.

       A  user-defined	set  of macros may be specified after the -m option.  There should be a space between the -m and the macro filename.  This
       set of macros will replace the ones defined in /usr/share/tmac/tmac.bib.  The -V flag will send output to the Versatec; the  -Q	flag  will
       queue output for the phototypesetter.

       Four  command-line registers control formatting style of the bibliography, much like the number registers of ms(7).  The command-line argu-
       ment -rN1 will number the references starting at one (1).  The flag -rV2 will double space the bibliography, while -rV1 will  double  space
       references  but	single 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 default 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/share/tmac/tmac.bib  file of macros used by nroff/troff

SEE ALSO
       refer(1), addbib(1), sortbib(1), indxbib(1), lookbib(1)

BUGS
       Users have to rewrite macros to create customized formats.

4.2 Berkeley Distribution					 October 22, 1996							ROFFBIB(1)