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1*e7237043Smckusick	@(#)README	2.1 (Berkeley) 04/08/88
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3*e7237043SmckusickTitle:		Bib
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5*e7237043SmckusickAuthors:	Timothy A. Budd
6*e7237043Smckusick		Gary M. Levin
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8*e7237043SmckusickAddress:	Department of Computer Science
9*e7237043Smckusick		University of Arizona
10*e7237043Smckusick		Tucson, Arizona 85721
11*e7237043Smckusick		(602) 621-6613
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13*e7237043SmckusickDescription:
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15*e7237043SmckusickBib is a program for collecting and formatting reference lists in
16*e7237043Smckusickdocuments.  It is a preprocessor to the nroff/troff typesetting
17*e7237043Smckusicksystems, much like the tbl [.tbl.] and eqn [.eqn.] systems.  Bib takes
18*e7237043Smckusicktwo inputs: a document to be formatted and a library of references.
19*e7237043SmckusickImprecise citations in the source document are replaced by more
20*e7237043Smckusickconventional citation strings, the appropriate references are selected
21*e7237043Smckusickfrom the reference file, and commands are generated to format both
22*e7237043Smckusickcitation and the referenced item in the bibliography.
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