Re: [Groff] Refer Usage Question

[Frank Jahnke]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:22 +0200, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:

> yes, their is a way (and to be fair, it _is_ in the manpage of refer 
> and one can understand that passage without making it a project of it's 
> own -- which is not the case with other parts of the manpage,
> I'm afraid :-) ):

Well, I usually use the Unix 7th Edition manual as my reference for
troff and friends.  On occasion you find this sort of difference, so I
was unaware that this feature had been added.  Thank you -- I will RTFM.

> I use the following refer settings regularly (with -ms macros)
> 
> .R1
> search-truncate 255
> accumulate
> bracket-label " [" "]" ", "
> abbreviate-label-ranges
> reverse A
> sort A
> sort-adjacent-labels
> move-punctuation
> join-authors " and " ", " ", "
> .R2
> 
> 
> the relevant command is `abbreviate-label-ranges' (see manpage for the 
> details).

I will try it.  I can pretty much understand the code from a quick read.
> 
> 
> joerg

Frank