On Jul 27, 2016 12:02 PM, "John Gardner" <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A program called *bib* appears to exist (or have once existed) that was > supposedly similar or identical to *refer*. However, aside from a few > fleeting references to its existence on Wikipedia > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff#Preprocessors> and Troff.org > <http://www.troff.org/prog.html>, I'm finding very little info on the > program. > > Does anybody know how it differed from the more familiar *refer* program > that's bundled with the GNU suite? >
Timothy Budd wrote bib, which is more flexible than refer in letting you setup styles for citations and adding multiple references inline under a single note. The program was distributed with BSD; you can get a copy from the CSRG archives and there's documentation in the User's Supplementary Documents number 28. MirBSD has an html version of the doc at https://www.mirbsd.org/htman/i386/manUSD/28.bib.htm. I tried and liked bib, but found it was easier in my case to manually format references. I used Chicago style exclusively abd just setup a sed script to handle first references, while leaving others as the author's last name and page number. Best regards, Dan Plassche
