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I have a couple questions about refer, troff, and TeX.

1.  I am using refer with my own reference database.  When I use
refer and troff to produce a paper, refer messes up with the
sorting of the references.  I use the following command line:

	refer -sA+D -l3,2 -p mybase | troff -ms

Several of the references are out of order at the end of the
document.  refer gives no error messages.  When I sortbib
the whole database, everything comes out fine.  Any ideas?

2.  Is there a way to do something like floating keeps, only
forcing the keeps to always come out at the top of the next page?
I am using .KF/.KE, but I want my figures not to be surrounded
by text.

3.  How do you get extra space at the top of a page before
actually printing something?  I tried .rs, but no go.  Playing
with the header margins causes problems.

4.  Is there a way to use a refer database with TeX?  Now that
I have this nice big database of references, it sure would be
nice to use it with TeX!

Thanks in advance.

Mark Grosen        UUCP:{ucbvax,sdcsvax,pyramid}!ucsbcsl!grosen
ECE Dept.
Univ. of Calif.
Santa Barbara, CA  93106