> That said, it would be nice to share a refer database of the > various troff (and maybe unix) papers, which are sometimes > mentionned on man pages.
I've just seen this: http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/bibliography/tools/bibtex2refer I can imagine that such a tool could be improved so that the many BibTeX databases are accessible to groff, cf. http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/ Werner