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.Nd run off bibliographic database
is a shell script which prints out all records in a bibliographic database,
in bibliography format rather than as footnotes or endnotes.
Generally it is used in conjunction with
.Dl sortbib database \&| roffbib
accepts most of the options understood by
flag to specify terminal type.
If abstracts or comments are entered in the database following the
will format them into paragraphs for an annotated bibliography.
fields may be given if several
annotation paragraphs are desired.
Suppresses the printing of
Send output to the Versatec (use vtroff).
Queue the output to the default troff device.
sends the output to the standard output.
.Pa /usr/share/tmac/tmac.bib .
These can be over ridden by
specifying a user-defined set with the
Four command-line registers control formatting style
of the bibliography, much like the number registers of
The command-line argument
the references starting at one 1 .
will double space the bibliography,
will double space references
but single space annotation paragraphs.
The line length can be changed from the default 6.5 inches
and the page offset can be set from the default of 0
to one inch by specifying
the default page offset is already one inch.
is limited, but it is a good script to copy and adopt
for one's own needs, as it does demonstrate usage of
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/tmac/tmac.bib -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/tmac/tmac.bib
Users have to rewrite macros
to create customized formats.
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