/contrib/groff/src/preproc/refer/TODO
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- inline references
- Some sort of macro/subroutine that can cover several references.
- move-punctuation should ignore multiple punctuation characters.
- Make the index files machine independent.
- Allow search keys to be negated (with !) to indicate that the
- reference should not contain the key. Ignore negated keys during
- indexed searching.
- Provide an option with lkbib and lookbib that prints the location
- (filename, position) of each reference. Need to map filename_id's
- back to filenames.
- Rename join-authors to join-fields. Have a separate label-join-fields
- command used by @ and #.
- Have some sort of quantifier: eg $.n#A means execute `$.n' for each
- instance of an A field, setting $ to that field, and then join the
- results using the join-authors command.
- no-text-in-bracket command which says not to allow post_text and
- pre_text when the [] flags has been given. Useful for superscripted
- footnotes.
- Make it possible to translate - to \(en in page ranges.
- Trim eign a bit.
- In indexed searching discard all numeric keys except dates.
- Allow `\ ' to separate article from first word.
- %also
- Option automatically to supply [] flags in every reference.
- See if we can avoid requiring a comma before jr. and so on
- in find_last_name().
- Cache sortified authors in authors string during tentative evaluation of
- label specification.
- Possibly don't allow * and % expressions in the first part of ?:, | or
- & expressions.
- Handle better the case where <> occurs inside functions and in the
- first operand of ~. Or perhaps implement <> using some magic character
- in the string.
- Should special treatment be given to lines beginning with . in
- references? (Unix refer seems to treat them like `%').
- Add global flag to control whether all files should be stat-ed after
- loading, and whether they should be stat-ed before each search.
- Perhaps make this dependent on the number of files there are.
- Option to truncate keys to truncate_len in linear searching.
- Allow multiple -f options in indxbib.
- In indxbib, possibly store common words rather than common words
- filename. In this case store only words that are actually present in
- the file.
- Perhaps we should put out an obnoxious copyright message when lookbib
- starts up.
- Provide an option that writes a file containing just the references
- actually used. Useful if you want to distribute a document.
- Have a magic token such that
- %A <sort stuff><magic token><print stuff>
- will print as though it were
- %A <print stuff>
- but sort as though it were
- %A <sort stuff>
- Do we need this if we can specify author alternatives for sorting?
- No, provided we have separate alternatives for @.
- In consider_authors when last names are ambiguous we might be able to
- use just the first name and not Jr. bit. Or we might be able to
- abbreviate the author.
- It ought to be possible to specify an alternative field to sort on
- instead of date. (ie if there's a field giving the type of document --
- these references should sort after any years)
- Provide a way to execute a command using a command-line option.
- Option to set the label-spec as a command-line option (-L).
- Command to to specify which fields can occur multiple times:
- multiple AE
- Command to specify how various fields sort:
- aort-as-name A
- sort-as-date D
- sort-as-title T
- sort-as-other O
- Command to specify which fields are author fields:
- # if we don't have A use field Q
- author-fields AQ
- Commands to set properties of tokens.
- sortify-token \(ae ae
- uppercase-token \[ae] \[AE]
- Command to set the names of months:
- months january february march april may ...
- Perhaps provide some sort of macro capability:
- # perhaps a macro capability
- defmacro foo
- annotation-field $1
- endef
- Command to control strings used in capitalization
- capitalize-start \s+2
- capitalize-end \s-2
- (perhaps make these arguments to the capitalize command.)