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Name

indxbib - create an inverted index to a bibliographic database

Synopsis

indxbib database-file...

Availability

SUNWdoc

Description

indxbib makes an inverted index to the named database-file (which must reside within the current directory), typically for use by lookbib(1) and refer(1) . A database contains bibliographic references (or other kinds of information) separated by blank lines.

A bibliographic reference is a set of lines, constituting fields of bibliographic information. Each field starts on a line beginning with a ‘%’, followed by a key-letter, then a blank, and finally the contents of the field, which may continue until the next line starting with ‘%’.

indxbib is a shell script that calls two programs: /usr/lib/refer/mkey and /usr/lib/refer/inv. mkey truncates words to 6 characters, and maps upper case to lower case. It also discards words shorter than 3 characters, words among the 100 most common English words, and numbers (dates) < 1000 or > 2099. These parameters can be changed.

indxbib creates an entry file (with a .ia suffix), a posting file (.ib), and a tag file (.ic), in the working directory.

Files

/usr/lib/refer/mkey
/usr/lib/refer/inv
x.ia
entry file
x.ib
posting file
x.ic
tag file
x.ig
reference file

See Also

addbib(1) , lookbib(1) , refer(1) , roffbib(1) , sortbib(1)

Bugs

All dates should probably be indexed, since many disciplines refer to literature written in the 1800s or earlier.

indxbib does not recognize pathnames.

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