On Sep 19, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Pierre Morel wrote:
Since the "biblio" mailing list seems to be rather inactive, I'm
posting on this list to which I'm subscribed, sorry for my question
being not directly xetex related (even if I'm using xetex!).
I'm writing my thesis in French, but it includes my published or to-
be published articles in English. All is in a single document in
order to have correct figure and page numberings (but with
multiple .tex files of course). I use natbib for the bilbiography.
After my problems with hyperref, which were quite minor and are
solved, I'm stumbling on something much more serious:
Depeding on the bibliography style I choose (plainnat or plainnat-
fr), the language in the citation changes, the most obvious one
being the switch from (Author1 and Author2, year) to (Author1 et
Author2). The first being quite unsettling in the middle of the
french parts (because of the "and") while the second looks weird in
the english parts. For more than two authors, the typography changes
on the "et al" (normal text for English, italic for French).
So my question is the following : how to choose two different
citation styles for different sections of the same document ?
(only the first \bibliographystyle{} command seems to be taken in
account).
I don't think this is possible to do using natbib. But it's easy to
do using biblatex. Biblatex is babel-aware, so if if you switch
languages it will switch citation styles automatically.
It's usually not to difficult to convert a document from using natbib
to biblatex either, since your citation commands can stay the same.
(Note also, that using biblatex doesn't *require* using biber
(although the two are designed to work together.) So you can still
use your existing bib file along with bibtex to do the sorting etc. I
mention this, because especially when using XeLaTeX, there's lots of
interest in using biber and biblatex since biber is Unicode-aware.)
Alan
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