09.04.2021 16:39:53 Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com>:
I still use it. I think it differs in many ways from the original
version (the Caldera licence was to allow the 7th Edition code to be
used in 2002).
Nice to read from you!
I personally found the code hard to read, but I feel it's just normal for
the complexity of the task. Managing references is harder than it may
sound, I'm sure.
I used your refer version for my two last theses in university, I just
wished it had a native solution for double references. I needed the
reference as footnotes in the text, as well as at the very end of the
thesis under a bibliography/literature section. Refer can do both, but
not simultaneously. I built a rc script around this which calls refer
twice and merges the results, which is a very hacky solution... but it
worked.
I like how refer embeds nicely into Plan 9 (with calls like refer/refer).
(This reminds me, I should finish my wwb port, but that's offtopic.)
Thanks for porting refer. Again, I wish we had some easier way to manage
contrib packages, e.g. by having repositories and just clone and mk them.
I never know which package is still supported and supposed to work and
which ones are legacy and don't work.
sirjofri
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