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C 4 bib, listrefs, bibinc, bib2tib - bibliographic formatter bib [options] ...

listrefs [options] ...

bibinc [options] ...

Bib is a preprocessor for nroff or troff(1) that formats citations and bibliographies. The input files (standard input default) are copied to the standard output, except for text between [. and .] pairs, which are assumed to be keywords for searching a bibliographic database. If a matching reference is found a citation is generated replacing the text. References are collected, optionally sorted, and written out at a location specified by the user. Citation and reference formats are controlled by the -t option.

Reference databases are created using the invert utility.

The following options are available. Note that standard format styles (see the -t option) set options automatically. Thus if a standard format style is used the user need not indicate any further options for most documents.

reduce author\*(CQs first names to abbreviations. reverse the first num author's names. If a number is not given all authors names are reversed. print authors last names in Caps-Small Caps style. For example Budd becomes B\s-2UDD\s+2. This style is used by certain ACM publications. build citations according to the template str. See the reference format designer\*(CQs guide for more information on templates. changes the default search directory for style files, include files, etc. and changes the value of the macro BMACLIB for bib, and of the macro l] used to find the troff macro definition file bmac.std. Defaults to /usr/new/lib/bmac. If you have your own private copies of all the necessary files, using this option is the easiest way to specify them. reduce editors' first names to abbreviations. print editors' last names in Caps-Small Caps style (see -ax option). reverse the first num editors' names. If a number is not given all editors' names are reversed. instead of collecting references, dump each reference immediately following the line on which the citation is placed (used for footnoted references). .ns process the indicated file, such as a file of definitions. (see technical report for a description of file format). replace citations to three or more adjacent reference items with a hyphenated string (eg 2,3,4,5 becomes 2-5). This option implies the -o option. turn off indicated options. str must be composed of the letters afhosx. contiguous citations are ordered according the the reference list before being printed (default). .ns instead of searching the file INDEX, search the indicated reference files before searching the system file. files is a comma separated list of inverted indices, created using the invert utility. sort references according to the template str. .ns use the standard macros and switch settings for the indicated style to generate citations and references. There are a number of standard styles provided. In addition users can generate their own style macros. See the format designers guide for details. the abbreviations and macros used all use the TiB style of macro call in which the name is enclosed in vertical |bars|. instead of processing the input files, write the file bib.m4.in containing m4(I) macro definitions that make converting from bib style to Tib style macros a little easier. Note that m4 does not allow ampersands in macro names: this file and all of the files to be converted will have to be changed by hand. The m4 macros will only identify words that bib would normally expand: they do no other conversions. After creating .bib.m4.in, run the scriptfile bib2tib passing it the names of the files you wish converted.

Listrefs formats an entire reference database file. Options to listrefs are the same as for bib.

Bibinc is an od hack tool for solving the problem of multiple define files for multiple styles. Some journal styles require that journal names be spelled out completely, while others allow abbreviated names. Two macro definition files are available that allow this multiplicity of style: bibinc.fullnames and bibinc.shortnames. A frequent source of error is updating one of these files, and forgetting to update the other. Bibinc allows a single file, say bibinc.names, to define both the long and the short versions of names, and from which the files bibinc.fullnames and bibinc.shortnames can easily be created. Bibinc can also be used to define macro files for the TiB bibliographic preprocessor.

Bib2tib will use the bib.m4.in file created with the -Tibx option to convert any files you specify into one using the TiB-style macro conventions. It is a simple script that does about 95% of the necessary grunge work to make this conversion, but be aware that the user will still need to eyeball the converted files for correctness. To make use of the facility, run a bib job with the -Tibx option: bib will not process the input files, but will create bib.m4.in instead, after gathering together all the definitions it can find. Then for each of your bibliographic database files, run bibinc.

Bib was designed initially for use with the -ms macros, and uses a couple of the -ms macros (.ip and .lp) in its macro definitions. To use it with the -me macros, prefix the file being sent to nroff/troff with the following macro definitions:

.de IP
.ip \\$1 \\$2
..
.de LP
.lp
..

A file "bibmac.me" containing these macro definitions may be found in /usr/new/lib/bmac.

INDEX inverted index for reference database

/usr/dict/papers/INDEX default system index

/usr/new/lib/bmac/bmac.* formatting macro packages

/usr/new/lib/bmac/bibinc.names input to bibinc

/usr/new/lib/bmac/tibmacs/* for use with TiB-style |macros|

/usr/new/lib/bmac/bibmacs/* for use with old bib-style macros

/usr/tmp/bibr* scratch file for collecting references

/usr/tmp/bibp* output of pass one of bib

bib.m4.in macros for converting to TiB (see -Tibx above)

A UNIX Bibliographic Database Facility, Timothy A. Budd and Gary M. Levin, University of Arizona Technical Report 82-1, 1982. (includes format designers guide).

BIB - A Program for Formatting Bibliographies, Timothy A. Budd, a BSD UNIX document found in /usr/doc/usd/31.bib.

invert(1), troff(1)