you are beautiful people :o)
a space between J.F. did the trick.
if i ever was to cite you guys, your initials would now come out correct
:o))))
sincerely
martin
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:12:08PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> > now, the medline2bibtex convertions is done by pybliographer which gives
> > bibtex files with: author = {Smith, J.F.}
> >
> > it is possible that publiographer is wrong here - but i have not been
> > able to locate a precise description of the bibtex file format.
>
> It is. Bibtex knows three kinds of string separators: space, tilde and
> hyphen.
> Anway, you have to tell it that "J." and "F." are two strings.
>
> > so what are the correct format:
> >
> > 1) author = {Smith, J.F.}
> > 2) author = {Smith, J. F.}
> > 3) author = {Smith, J.\F.}
> > 4) author = {Smith, J.~F.}
>
> In the bibfile: probably only 2 and 4. In the output: J.\,F. (note the comma!)
>
> > (what does \ and ~ mean, btw?)
>
> \, is a nonbreakable "thin space", to be used inside abbreviations (e.\,g.).
> ~ is the LaTeX equivalent of LyX's nonbreakable (or protected) Space.
>
> J�rgen
