Re: [Groff] Reinventing the refer(1) wheel

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Sun Apr 13 16:30:38 2003, address@hidden wrote:
...
> hacking a .bst file.  Speaking of which, there is no necessary connection
> between Bibtex and LaTeX - wouldn't it be possible to write a .bst file to
> output troff macros instead of TeX ones?  Has anyone ever tried it?

Part of the problem, I guess, is that BibTeX entries tend to contain LaTeX 
escapes
("de~Geer"), and refer entries tend to contain troff escapes ("de\0Geer").

/Jörgen

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