>>>>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:17:05 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Ernesto Jardim
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Why do you have this extra pair of braces for the Author? It
>> effectively prevents bibtex from processing the name correctly.
>>
>> JMarc
ej> Hi
ej> I'm using Pybliographic to build the bibtex file and it seems
ej> that it includes this extra pair of braces.
ej> I've corrected it and it works fine now!
ej> Thanks
ej> EJ
Evidently you wrote the entire name (in your case "John Doe") in the
"Author" field. Instead, you should have entered "Doe, John" there. In
no way bibtex (nor pybliographic, for that matter) can correctly guess
the "Name" and "Surname" separation, and it needs some help from the
writer. So the author name should be written as `Surname, Name'. This
is a bibtex imposition, not a Pybliographic bug; it puts braces around
"multiple" names, to keep them in a single unit: for example, the name
"Anna Maria Filiberta" should be written as `Filiberta, Anna Maria',
that becomes "Filiberta, {Anna Maria}" in the .bib file.
When you have multiple authors, you should put them in separated lines
in the "Author" field. Then Pybliographic will write the expected
`Filiberta, {Anna Maria} and Doe, John' in the .bib file. Later, the
.bst style will produce something like "Filiberta e Doe~1987" as
the label LaTeX puts in the bibliography (note the italian "e" as
conjuction) .
I'm slowly learning some bibtex black art, just to help my girlfriend
produce her thesis. Her prof was very precise on the layout she wants
in the bibliography, and after trying hundreds of .bst styles, I ended
up digging in the inside of the most similar, adapting it to the
specifications. Given the modern scripting engines, one may only
wonder why the bibtex machinery is so complex (and pourly documented,
I must say)!!
bye, lele.
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