indxbib — Create an Inverted Index to a Bibliographic Database

Synopsis

/usr/bin/indxbib database-file... 

Description

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 that may continue until the next line starting with %. A database contains bibliographic references (or other kinds of information) separated by blank lines.

indxbib makes an inverted index to the named database-file (that must reside within the current directory), typically for use by lookbib(1) and refer(1). As output, indxbib creates an entry file (with a .ia suffix), a posting file (.ib), and a tag file ...

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