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