Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

[sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9fans@sirjofri.de>]

09.04.2021 16:39:53 Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>:
> I still use it. I think it differs in many ways from the original 
> version (the Caldera licence was to allow the 7th Edition code to be 
> used in 2002).

Nice to read from you!

I personally found the code hard to read, but I feel it's just normal for 
the complexity of the task. Managing references is harder than it may 
sound, I'm sure.

I used your refer version for my two last theses in university, I just 
wished it had a native solution for double references. I needed the 
reference as footnotes in the text, as well as at the very end of the 
thesis under a bibliography/literature section. Refer can do both, but 
not simultaneously. I built a rc script around this which calls refer 
twice and merges the results, which is a very hacky solution... but it 
worked.

I like how refer embeds nicely into Plan 9 (with calls like refer/refer).

(This reminds me, I should finish my wwb port, but that's offtopic.)

Thanks for porting refer. Again, I wish we had some easier way to manage 
contrib packages, e.g. by having repositories and just clone and mk them. 
I never know which package is still supported and supposed to work and 
which ones are legacy and don't work.

sirjofri

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