Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-06 Thread Pierre-Jean
Peter Schaffter pe...@schaffter.ca 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

Re: [Groff] refer help

2010-09-05 Thread Pierre-Jean
Peter Schaffter pe...@schaffter.ca 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

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: unexpected

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 reliably, so it's

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 you a little

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 bugs in

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 database,

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 solution to this, or a

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 there a solution

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, or a

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 blank

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 abitrary.

[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 Antoine