Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-06 Thread Pierre-Jean
Peter Schaffter wrote: > Thanks. Isobib gave me some ideas that let me come up with a clean > solution to the idem (multiple works by the same author) problem in > mom. I'm glad of that. > I'm busy with mom right now, but I'd be happy to proofread and > correct your README and manpage. I'd b

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-05 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010, Pierre-Jean wrote: > Peter Schaffter wrote: > > > Still not happy about refer not having a mechanism for dealing with > > multiple works by the same author, but it's way beyond my expertise > > to fix that. > > > > Hello, > > I've got a macro that take care of that: Isobib

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-05 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010, Werner Lemberg wrote: > > > \*[foo Blow2], with macro "foo" blank, as above, prints the entry > > correctly but refer doesn't sort it (probably something to do with > > the asterisk). It winds up at the top of the bibliography. > > > > %A \C'Blow2'\[duplicate] works reliabl

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-05 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010, Werner Lemberg wrote: > > Another question/oddity. Although it isn't likely one would need > > two .R1 / .R2 blocks in the same document, in the case that one > > does, the second causes groff (or refer? I'm not sure which) to emit > > to stderr > > > > test: 12: .R1: unex

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-05 Thread Pierre-Jean
Peter Schaffter wrote: > Still not happy about refer not having a mechanism for dealing with > multiple works by the same author, but it's way beyond my expertise > to fix that. > Hello, I've got a macro that take care of that: Isobib.tmac. It has been made to respect the iso-690-2 bibliography

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> \*[foo Blow2], with macro "foo" blank, as above, prints the entry > correctly but refer doesn't sort it (probably something to do with > the asterisk). It winds up at the top of the bibliography. > > %A \C'Blow2'\[duplicate] works reliably, so it's probably the best > solution. The "2" is abi

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Another question/oddity. Although it isn't likely one would need > two .R1 / .R2 blocks in the same document, in the case that one > does, the second causes groff (or refer? I'm not sure which) to emit > to stderr > > test: 12: .R1: unexpected operator > > unless the .R1 is followed by a bla

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010, Peter Schaffter wrote: > The first is that refer doesn't appear to recognize named glyphs in > a refer database, eg "Encyclop\[ae]dia Britannica" comes out as > "Encyclop dia Britannica" and "Antoine de St-Exup\['e]ry" as > "Antoine de St-Exup ry". Is there a solution to this

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > The first is that refer doesn't appear to recognize named glyphs in a > > refer database, eg "Encyclop\[ae]dia Britannica" comes out as > > "Encyclop dia Britannica" and "Antoine de St-Exup\['e]ry" as "Antoine > > de St-Exup ry". Is

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-04 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010, Werner Lemberg wrote: > > > The first is that refer doesn't appear to recognize named glyphs in > > a refer database, eg "Encyclop\[ae]dia Britannica" comes out as > > "Encyclop dia Britannica" and "Antoine de St-Exup\['e]ry" as > > "Antoine de St-Exup ry". Is there a soluti

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-04 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Peter: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:38:45PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > Any refer experts out there? I'm overhauling mom's refer handling > to make it fully MLA compliant, and I've encountered two issues. > > The first is that refer doesn't appear to recognize named glyphs in > a refer databas

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The first is that refer doesn't appear to recognize named glyphs in > a refer database, eg "Encyclop\[ae]dia Britannica" comes out as > "Encyclop dia Britannica" and "Antoine de St-Exup\['e]ry" as > "Antoine de St-Exup ry". Is there a solution to this, or a known > workaround? There might be b

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > The first is that refer doesn't appear to recognize named glyphs in a > refer database, eg "Encyclop\[ae]dia Britannica" comes out as > "Encyclop dia Britannica" and "Antoine de St-Exup\['e]ry" as "Antoine > de St-Exup ry". Is there a solution to this, or a known workaround? Have yo

[Groff] refer help

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
Any refer experts out there? I'm overhauling mom's refer handling to make it fully MLA compliant, and I've encountered two issues. The first is that refer doesn't appear to recognize named glyphs in a refer database, eg "Encyclop\[ae]dia Britannica" comes out as "Encyclop dia Britannica" and "Ant