Re: [Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-03 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Pierre-Jean wrote: |Werner LEMBERG wrote: |> I've just seen this: |> |> http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/bibliography/tools/bibtex2refer | |This is, for sure, a handy script. I also thought so and ran it on [1] (the first link i got) and schwuppdiwupp i ended in an endless loop. Find attached a

Re: [Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-03 Thread Pierre-Jean
Werner LEMBERG wrote: > I've just seen this: > > http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/bibliography/tools/bibtex2refer This is, for sure, a handy script. Zotero (a firefox and OpenOffice plugin, which extract bibliography references from web pages, store them, and insert them in office texts) can also dea

Re: [Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> 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 ma

Re: [Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-03 Thread Pierre-Jean
"Bernd Warken" wrote: > 1) `refer.man' cites under `FILES': > file.i Index files. I did not investigate this much, but this should be the conventional output file name of the 'mkey' program from Heirloom/refer, which build an index of keys of a refer file. Another program, 'inv

Re: [Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-02 Thread Bernd Warken
> Von: "Werner LEMBERG" > > > > I will right `addlib', but that will take some time. Would it be > > possible and reasonable to use the already existing Heirloom > > programs? Maybe some help from the Heirloom team might be very > > helpful. > > For license reasons, this wouldn't be possible.

Re: [Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I will right `addlib', but that will take some time. Would it be > possible and reasonable to use the already existing Heirloom > programs? Maybe some help from the Heirloom team might be very > helpful. For license reasons, this wouldn't be possible. On the other hand: Why not simply point

Re: [Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-02 Thread Carsten Kunze
> I will right `addlib', but that will take some time. Would it be > possible and reasonable to use the already existing Heirloom programs? > Maybe some help from the Heirloom team might be very helpful. They could be checked for portability, made -Wall clean etc. But how about the license? Un

Re: [Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-02 Thread Bernd Warken
I added a TODO part in the `groff' source file `PROJECTS'. > > /usr/dict/papers/Ind Default database. > > > > That file does not exist. The directory for such a file should > > be in the groff directory under /usr/local/share. > > Mhmm. Basically, you are right. However, given that groff's

Re: [Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The following extensions of refer exist in Heirloom and the known > refer history. > > 1) `refer.man' cites under `FILES': > file.i Index files. > > But I couldn't find this file type and no documentation for them. Those files are created by `indxbib'. > 2) `refer.man' cites

[Groff] Extending refer

2014-09-02 Thread Bernd Warken
The following extensions of refer exist in Heirloom and the known refer history. 1) `refer.man' cites under `FILES': file.i Index files. But I couldn't find this file type and no documentation for them. 2) `refer.man' cites under `FILES': /usr/dict/papers/Ind Default databa