Re: [Groff] indentation in bibliographies

[joerg van den hoff]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:57:05 +0200, Matthias-Christian Ott <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 04:20:36PM +0200, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
> > I'm using 'refer' (and the ms macros) for generation of auto-numbered  
> > literature
> > references (using the refer 'bibliography' request).
> >
> > problem: if numbers go beyond 99 there is not enough indentation space,
> > so I get something like
> >
> > ...
> > 98. some reference
> > 99. some reference
> > 100.
> >    some reference
> > ...
> >
> >
> > I therefore want to increase the indentation to get
> >
> > ...
> > 98.  some reference
> > 99.  some reference
> > 100. some reference
> > ...
> >
> >
> > but I cannot recall/find how to do this.
>
> I believe what you want to do is not really possible, because groff is a
> single-pass typesetting software.

yes, I know. I actually wanted a way to choose a fixed hard-coded indent.

> I always write ad-hoc macros, so I can't help you with -ms, but here's
> how I solved the problem:
>
> .de ][
> .br
> .ps 11p
> .ft R
> .ad l
> .mk
> .ll 5n
> [\\*([F]
> .br
> .rt
> .ll
> .in +5n
> .if !"\\*([A"" \\*([A:
> .if !"\\*([T"" \fI\\*([T\fP.
> .if !"\\*([J"" \{\
> In: \fI\\*([J\fP.
> .if !"\\*([N"" \\*([N,
> .\}
> .if !"\\*([B"" In: \fI\\*([B\fP.
> .if !"\\*([I"" \\*([I,
> .if !"\\*([C"" \\*([C
> .if !"\\*([D"" \\*([D
> .ie !"\\*([P"" , S. \\*([P
> .el \.
> .if !"\\*([O"" \{\
> .br
> \\*([O
> .\}
> .br
> .in
> .di
> .ne \\n(dnu
> .nr fI \\n(.u
> .nf
> .Bi
> .if \\n(fI .fi
> .rm [A [B [C [D [E [G [I [J [K [L [N [O [P [Q [R [S [T [V [X
> ..
> .de ]-
> .br
> .di Bi
> ..
>
> It basically puts the bibliography at the end and inserts a "column"
> with a fixed width which contains the numbers, you have to manually
> adjust the column width depending on the bibliography size you have. It
> worked for me with about 150 entries.

this perfectly fits my needs. thanks a lot! I did not look at the ']['  
macro, so I was hoping that
there is some 'user-level' switch to adjust the indent via a register.  
seems not to be the case...

I will see how to adjust your template to my special case. on a first try  
it works when generating
postscript and also when formatting with -Tascii, but in the latter case I  
get warnings:

./publica:105: warning: only `z' and `u' scale indicators valid in this  
context
./publica:105: warning: macro `[B' not defined
./publica:105: warning: macro `[I' not defined
./publica:105: warning: macro `[C' not defined
./publica:105: warning: macro `[O' not defined

which are absent when using the default device. any idea where these come  
from?

thanks again (and I Cc this back to the list...)

joerg