Thanks Zvezdan, Your suggestion works!
I mistakenly thought that annotation was turned on by default. It's not. I was just creating a string [X by putting %X in my refer bibliography, and refer was just dutifully turning it into a string via ".ds". .R1 annotate X "de [X" (other stuff) .R2 does the job, although I still have to add ".." at the end of the annotation (as you have already noted). I'm using refer plus macros to write each title, citation, and abstract out to a separate file which I process later. Having the entire abstract in a macro is really convenient. Thanks again, and best regards, Bill Ward > From: Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:30:08 -0400 > To: Groff@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [Groff] Treatment of annotation paragraphs in refer > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 03:55:10PM -0500, Bill Ward wrote: >> However, refer turns the annotation text into one long string defined >> using the .ds command and all troff commands are lost; e.g., > > You can tell it to turn it into something else instead of the default > ".ds". > For example > > .R1 > annotate X (q > .R2 > > will instruct refer to replace every "X" field with ".(q", which is the > beginning of quoted paragraph in -me macros. > > One can add a closing ".)q" at the end of annotation in the reference. > However, I prefer to add the closing ".)q" using a postrefer.sed script > from a Makefile. > > Thus my annotations look like this after refer. > > .(q > annotation > .)q > > and produce a quotation paragraph in slightly smaller font indented > inside from the left and right side. > >> .de [X >> First paragraph of annnotation. >> .LP >> Second paragraph of annotation. >> .. > > I believe it would be better if it just turns it into > .LP > First paragraph. > .LP > Second paragraph. > >> Anyone know of any way to circumvent this problem? > > I hope the above hint helps. > > Best regards, > > Zvezdan Petkovic > > > _______________________________________________ > Groff mailing list > Groff@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff > _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
