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@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ On my HP Compaq dc5700 from 2007, the relationship between number of entries in .It 182 Ta 0.24s .El .Pp -I would deem it rare to have more than a couple of hundred references in a troff document. +I would deem it rare to have more than a couple of hundred unique references in a troff document. . .Sh USAGE .Nm @@ -168,11 +168,12 @@ Defines the of publication. .El .Pp -Of these macros, -.Sy \&Ra -and -.Sy \&Ry -are the most important. +In the final output, +.Nm +prints a formatted version of each reference entry in place of its definition. +.Nm +does not change the order of reference entries. +This means that you can arrange your references freely. .Sh FORMAT SYNTAX In a format definition, use a percent (%) sigil followed by a single letter to interpolate any given field of the reference. @@ -192,6 +193,9 @@ Note that all fields are inserted literally, except .Em %a , from which the forenames of the authors are removed. .Pp +Note also that you can use troff requests and other macros in your format by starting with a dot. This will expand to a valid request/macro in the output of +.Nm . +.Pp Finally, you usually don't need to worry about excessive spaces and stray punctuation marks, as .Nm removes many of these these automatically. @@ -199,4 +203,4 @@ removes many of these these automatically. .Sh AUTHORS .Nm was written by John Ankarström -.Aq Mt john (on) ankarstrom.se . +.Aq Mt john (at) ankarstrom.se . |