It is a mystery how these files are generated, since the build script is not available anywhere that I can find. I believe the foo.abs file is obtained by using absedt, but I cannot find any tool that seems likely to be able to generate nor consume the reftags and symbtags files, although it's not too hard to take some guesses about the format.
MML comes with a
abstr/
directory containing:abstr/foo.abs
for each articlefoo
abstr/reftags
abstr/symbtags
It is a mystery how these files are generated, since the build script is not available anywhere that I can find. I believe the
foo.abs
file is obtained by usingabsedt
, but I cannot find any tool that seems likely to be able to generate nor consume thereftags
andsymbtags
files, although it's not too hard to take some guesses about the format.