On Nov 10, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Hendrik wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm puzzled: since the braces are legit (perhaps Google puts the
>>> extra set there to keep the title the way they got it?), why remove
>>> them? I assume I'm missing something, but...
>>
>> They're not always correct, though, unfortunately. It's generally
>> better to let the .bst handle capitalization issues, as Alex said,
>> rather than force it in the database. The records I've seen from
>> Google Scholar are a mix of title case, sentence case, and all caps.
>
> That's been my experience too. Capitalization in Google Scholar
> currently seems too random overall to rely on it.
> Letting BibTeX take care of the capitalization is definitely better at
> this point.
> I typically go through my references just before publishing papers to
> fix capitalization for names and such.
> For example: "Stochastic relaxation, {G}ibbs distributions and the
> {B}ayesian restoration of images".
> The .bst file will not do that for you.
What the .bst file will do if properly programmed is change a title in
which each word is capitalized into one that has sentence case; or
else the other way around. It's true, you have to protect the names
and other things that have to have a particular capitalization. If the
whole title is out of reach because it's in double braces then there's
nothing that the .bst can do to it. That seems to me to be the
problem. I'd rather have control over the formatting myself.
-Adam
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