> On 2017Jan12, at 10:48, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > > 2017-01-12 9:28 GMT+01:00 Anders Ekberg <a...@me.com <mailto: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 Thanks, that explained it perfectly!
Anders
