Re: [Groff] How *not* to print References with -ms?

[carsten . kunze]

To put

    .rm  REFERENCES

at the begin of z.1 is not recommended since it only removes the string 
"REFERENCES" but there is some additional space caused by the macro using that 
string.

But

    .rm ref*biblio-start-hook

does work for me with your example.

$ cat z.1
.rm ref*biblio-start-hook
.NH 1
Some references
.so j.ref
.so c.ref
.so b.ref

$ cat make.sh                                                   
#!/bin/sh
refer b.1 > b.ref && refer c.1 > c.ref && refer j.1 > j.ref
soelim z.1 > z.full
groff -ms -Tascii z.full -P-c|less

Is it possible that you did not run soelim after modifying z.1?  Else I have no 
idea why it does not work for you.

Nethertheless ".rm ref*biblio-start-hook" is a crude kludge, it uses 
undocumented non-portable implementation details which may change in future 
versions.  If this is not acceptable for your document more investigation is 
required.