Hi Tim,
I don't know enough about latex/bibtex, to give a profound answer. I'd
say, if it works for you, for the transforms to the other formats and it
is valid and usable bibtex, go ahead.
-Tom
Uli Wortmann wrote:
> ahh ok. what would happen with compound names like Hans-Jurgen Thuro?
> The correct way to render them would be H.-J. Thuro, but I would need to
> experiment to see what happens with bibtex in this case
>
> uli
>
> Tim Hicks wrote:
>> Hi Uli,
>>
>> (Taking this back on-list...)
>>
>> Uli Wortmann wrote:
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>> well if you render
>>>
>>> author = {Tom Hicks and Bob Tex and Paul Meyer} as
>>> author = {{Tom Hicks and Bob Tex and Paul Meyer}}
>>>
>>> bibtex would be unable to know that this has to be typeset as
>>>
>>> Hicks et al. when referenced via natbib,
>>>
>>> nor would bibtex be able to correctly sort the references list as
>>>
>>> Hicks et al, which has to come after Hicks and Tex, which would come
>>> after Hicks T.
>>>
>>> But most importantly, you would break the bibtex style file controlled
>>> rendering of ournal specific rendering of authors, e.g., some journals
>>> require
>>>
>>> Hicks T, Tex B
>>>
>>> while other require
>>>
>>> Hicks T., B. Tex
>>>
>>> because the bibtex interpreter assumes that authors are separated by
>>> "and", and that only the last entry in a list of names is the family
>>> names, while all previous entries are given names.
>> Sorry, I wasn't clear. I do not propose to simply wrap the entire
>> author line with curly braces. Instead, I propose to separately wrap
>> the first and last name components of the author line. So, your example
>> would be:
>>
>> author = {{Tom} {Hicks} and {Bob} {Tex} and {Paul} {Meyer}}
>>
>> Does that sound workable?
>>
>>
>> Tim
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