- Refer (software)
refer is a program for managing bibliographic references,and citing them in
troff documents.It is implemented as a troffpreprocessor .refer was written by Mike E. Lesk at
Bell Laboratories [Michael Lesk. Some applications of inverted indexes on the Unix system. In "UNIX Programmer's manual: Supplementary Documents", volume 2. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, seventh edition, 1982. Also available online [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/] ] in or before1978 ,and is now available as part of mostUnix -like operating systems.A free reimplementation exists as part of the groff package.refer works with a "reference file", a text file where the authorlists works to which she might want to refer to.One such reference (to an article in a journal in this case)might look like:
%A Brian W. Kernighan %A Lorinda L. Cherry %T A System for Typesetting Mathematics %J J. Comm. ACM %V 18 %N 3 %D March 1978 %P 151-157 %K eqn
The author then can refer to it in her troff document by listing keywordswhich uniquely match this reference:
. [ kernighan cherry eqn .]
refer sees little use today, primarily because troff itself is not used much forlonger technical writing that might need software support forreference and citation management.
Citations
ee also
Comparison of reference management software External links
* [http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/refer/refer.ps Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System] (
PostScript )
* [http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/topic/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds4/refer.htm AIX man page for refer(1)]
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