Re: Why does refer(1) have no database field for "edition"?

[Peter Schaffter]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2021, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Why does refer(1) have no database field for "edition"?
> 
> GNU refer doesn't.  Neither did AT&T refer according to my searches.

The lacuna isn't in refer(1), but in the macro packages using it.
Any %c, where c is an alphabetic character, can be used to create
a field refer(1) understands.  It is up to macro writers to work
out the the formatting and placement within a refer(1) citation or
bibliography entry.

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