[Corpora-List] Fwd: adapting LaTeX bst files

[Suzan Verberne]

Dear Ron,

 Thanks a lot for your input! I simply copied your function
 format.lab.names, including some help functions bbl.etal and bbl.and
 to my bst files and now it works!

 Best regards,
 Suzan Verberne

 2008/3/11, Ron Artstein <artstein at essex.ac.uk>:

> > I want to achieve that in the running article text, more than 3
 >  > authors are abbreviated as "xxx et al". Therefore, I need to
 >  > adapt the function format.names in the bst file. But if I add
 >  > such a function to my bst file (there was none), I get the error
 >  > message:
 >  >
 >  > format.names is already a type "wizard-defined" function name
 >
 >
 > It's hard to provide help without knowing which bst file you're
 >  starting from, since function names may differ among styles. I once
 >  had to provide this functionality for a bst file that emulates the
 >  style of Computational Linguistics:
 >
 >  http://ron.artstein.org/resources/compling.bst
 >
 >  If your original bst file was generated with Patrick Daly's
 >  custom-bib package, then you may be able to just lift the function
 >  format.lab.names from my file. Otherwise this function probably
 >  won't work verbatim, but it could give you ideas. Finally, it may
 >  be simplest to recreate the style file you need with custom-bib,
 >  the package now has the option to specify the number of authors
 >  before "et al" (too bad this option didn't exist when I created
 >  compling.bst -- it would have saved me work and it's probably
 >  better implemented than my hack).
 >
 >  -Ron.
 >
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 Department of Linguistics
 University of Nijmegen
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-- 
drs. Suzan Verberne, PhD student
Department of Linguistics
University of Nijmegen
Tel: +31 24 3611134
Email: s.verberne at let.ru.nl
http://lands.let.ru.nl/~sverbern/
--
"All of Cassandra's predictions always come true (Cassandra is a
computer.) Yesterday Cassandra predicted that it would rain today.
But obviously that is not why it is raining today." (Bromberger, 1966)

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