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Re: [Groff] Treatment of annotation paragraphs in refer
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Bill Ward |
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Re: [Groff] Treatment of annotation paragraphs in refer |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:48:05 -0500 |
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Thanks Zvezdan,
Your suggestion works!
I mistakenly thought that annotation was turned on by default. It's not. I
was just creating a string [X by putting %X in my refer bibliography, and
refer was just dutifully turning it into a string via ".ds".
.R1
annotate X "de [X"
(other stuff)
.R2
does the job, although I still have to add ".." at the end of the annotation
(as you have already noted). I'm using refer plus macros to write each
title, citation, and abstract out to a separate file which I process later.
Having the entire abstract in a macro is really convenient.
Thanks again, and best regards,
Bill Ward
> From: Zvezdan Petkovic <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:30:08 -0400
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Groff] Treatment of annotation paragraphs in refer
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 03:55:10PM -0500, Bill Ward wrote:
>> However, refer turns the annotation text into one long string defined
>> using the .ds command and all troff commands are lost; e.g.,
>
> You can tell it to turn it into something else instead of the default
> ".ds".
> For example
>
> .R1
> annotate X (q
> .R2
>
> will instruct refer to replace every "X" field with ".(q", which is the
> beginning of quoted paragraph in -me macros.
>
> One can add a closing ".)q" at the end of annotation in the reference.
> However, I prefer to add the closing ".)q" using a postrefer.sed script
> from a Makefile.
>
> Thus my annotations look like this after refer.
>
> .(q
> annotation
> .)q
>
> and produce a quotation paragraph in slightly smaller font indented
> inside from the left and right side.
>
>> .de [X
>> First paragraph of annnotation.
>> .LP
>> Second paragraph of annotation.
>> ..
>
> I believe it would be better if it just turns it into
> .LP
> First paragraph.
> .LP
> Second paragraph.
>
>> Anyone know of any way to circumvent this problem?
>
> I hope the above hint helps.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Zvezdan Petkovic
>
>
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