Re: Bug using BibTex and IEEEtran with author name containing And

2017-01-12 Thread Anders Ekberg 
> On 2017Jan12, at 10:48, Jürgen Spitzmüller  wrote:
> 
> 2017-01-12 9:28 GMT+01:00 Anders Ekberg 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

Re: Bug using BibTex and IEEEtran with author name containing And

2017-01-12 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller 
2017-01-12 9:28 GMT+01:00 Anders Ekberg :

> 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




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> All the best!
> Anders
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