2017-01-12 9:28 GMT+01:00 Anders Ekberg <a...@me.com>:
> I discovered a very strange bug:
> Using Lyx on Mac and inserting a reference file created by BibDesk using
> the IEEEtran format. The reference file has two entries that have the same
> authors. One author has a name containing And that I suspect can be related
> to the problem. In the output the first reference is fine, but in the
> second the author is missing. If I change the bibliography format to plain
> everything works. I can also get it to work by tweaking with the authors’
> names (e.g. removing the second author). LyX, bib and pdf-files for a
> minimum example are enclosed.
>
> Don’t know if it is a bug in LyX, TeX, BibDesk, BibTeX or something else,
> but it is definitely the strangest bug I have seen for a long time…
> Any ideas of the cause?
>
It's not a bug but a feature of IEEEtran.bst:
% This function detects entries with names that are identical to that of
% the previous entry and replaces the repeated names with dashes (if the
% "is.dash.repeated.names" user control is nonzero).
FUNCTION {name.or.dash}
{ 's :=
oldname empty$
{ s 'oldname := s }
{ s oldname =
{ is.dash.repeated.names
{ repeated.name.dashes }
{ s 'oldname := s }
if$
}
{ s 'oldname := s }
if$
}
if$
}
You can switch it off by
1. adding the following entry to your bib file:
@IEEEtranBSTCTL{IEEEexample:BSTcontrol,
CTLdash_repeated_names = "no",
}
2. then adding the following to your preamble
\usepackage{IEEEtrantools}
3. and finally, this somewhere in your document:
\bstctlcite{IEEEexample:BSTcontrol}
HTH
Jürgen
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> Anders
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