I noticed that someone (could be Werner) did something really clever: grep '.so refer.tmac' /usr/share/groff/current/tmac/* /usr/share/groff/current/tmac/refer-me.tmac:.mso refer.tmac /usr/share/groff/current/tmac/refer-mm.tmac:.mso refer.tmac /usr/share/groff/current/tmac/refer-ms.tmac:.mso refer.tmac
This clever person then cut the refer related stuff from s.tmac and put it into a refer.tmac. That is nice, since it reduces the amount of code to maintain. It had been even nicer, though, if I could copy this refer.tmac to my project and modify it. After all, if you are writing a paper you would like to have one refer.tmac per reference style. Like the ones here 1. APA 2. MLA 3. Chicago Manual of Style See (for example... there is a page like this at basically all universities): https://libguides.brown.edu/citations/styles I would like to change my refer.tmac. I can report that this is possible. This mail started as a question, and while writing I found the answer. You need to use the macro refer-ms.tmac (or refer-mm.tmac or refer-me.tmac). groff -ms -mrefer-ms -M ./tmac -m your-refer-code So, now my questions have changed: How do I make sure that a URL isn't hyphenated? And how do I enforce a break using an escape sequence rather than .br? I know, writing reference lists are not what developers love the most. Yours Sigfrid -- Sigfrid Lundberg, Ph.D., System developer Lund, Sweden https://sigfrid-lundberg.se/ <http://sigfrid-lundberg.se/>
