[1724] in Athena Bugs
A bug with roffbib
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mcharity@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 30 21:34:04 1989
From: <mcharity@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 21:32:48 EST
Program with which you had the problem: roffbib
Name of person who discovered the bug: Mitchell Charity
Their MIT phone number:
Their MIT address:
Their Athena Login ID: mcharity@athena.mit.edu
Name of consultant reporting bug:
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
roffbib does not output annotations.
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
roffbib (1) - run off bibliographic database
vax
Official behavior: (from roffbib.man)
If abstracts or comments are entered following the %X field
key, roffbib will format them into paragraphs for an anno-
tated bibliography. [...] The -x flag will
suppress the printing of these abstracts.
Problem:
roffbib's output did not contain such abstracts or comments.
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
*Create file sem.bib containing:
%A G. D. Plotkin
%T A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics
%R Tech. Report, DAIMI FN-19
%I Computer Science Dept., University of Aarhus
%P Aarhus, Denmark.
%X
Plotkin's report gives a solid foundation for an easy
to use operational semantics. This work has been used in INRIA's Centaur
project, in the Definition of Standard ML, and some other projects.
*Then roffbib sem.bib
*Output is:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Plotkin, G. D., "A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics,"
Tech. Report, DAIMI FN-19, p. Aarhus, Denmark., Computer
Science Dept., University of Aarhus.
*note absence of "Plotkin's report gives a solid ..."
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Fix (if you know what it is):
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