[333] in Athena Bugs
scribe bug -- @cite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Harrington)
Thu May 5 20:27:33 1988
Date: Thu, 5 May 88 20:26:14 EDT
From: Joe Harrington <jh@VENUS.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
On page 210 of the Scribe Version 5 Manual, it states that multiple
parameters may be given to the @cite command, separated by commas. It
is true that you can do this. And scribe will generate beautiful
multiple references, separated in your resulting text by COMMA's --
that's right, the word "COMMA" in all caps. Clearly unacceptable.
Using semicolons, spaces, spaces with commas, quoted semicolons or
commas also produces various forms of unsatisfactory output. And
worst of all, the code for this is in the scribe binary, and therefore
inaccessible to the database hacker.
also...
In the index of the scribe manual for version 5, it says the @cite
command is written up on page 209. It's on page 210. (looks like
they didn't run their document through scribe again to fix those
cross-refs...)
--jh--
