Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>Things become more funny with names where bibtex insists on deriving
>initials from first names by itself. For example, the name ``Philippe
>Robert'' will be changed by bibtex to ``P. Robert'', whereas the right
>thing to do is ``Ph. Robert''. Here, the only solution is to use
>``{\relax Ph}. Robert''.
I think this is special in french. I never saw prenames abbreviated
like that in (english) papers. IMO the french version of the corresponding
*.bst (if any...) would be the right place to implement this...
Talking of *.bst: How can I tell alpha.bst to take another key for a
citation ? Example:
author = {A. Alpha and B. Beta and G. Gamma}
year = {1999}
gives [ABG99]
but I want [Alp99] (only the first author), or something even more fancy.
Using the key field in the database (e.g. key = {Alp}) has no effect,
BibTeX uses it only when no author information is given. Without using
BibTeX, there is an optional argument to the \bibitem command which would
do what I want. But what to do if I don't want to edit everything by hand?
And - is there a tool to customize the *.bst other than by answering
thousands of questions without a chance of going back - perhaps something
based on tcl or the like ... ?
Greets,
Matthias
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