Inits without space in bibliography

Inits without space in bibliography

[Charles]

Hi,

I would like (the journal actually) to remove the spaces between 
initials (C.E. instead of C. E.). in the bibliography.

It seems initials are created during the .bib to .bbl conversion but I 
haven't find anything in the .bst style file. Can you please help ?

Thanks

Charles
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Re: Inits without space in bibliography

[Pontus Lurcock]

On Wed 05 Oct 2011, Charles wrote:

> I would like (the journal actually) to remove the spaces between  
> initials (C.E. instead of C. E.). in the bibliography.
>
> It seems initials are created during the .bib to .bbl conversion but I  
> haven't find anything in the .bst style file. Can you please help ?

I've looked at doing something similar, but haven't had time to get to
the bottom of it. In my case I'm using the cont-au.bst file. I think
the magic happens in the format.names function, which in turn calls
bibtex's internal format.name$ function. This stuff is documented in
Patashnik's bibtex docs -- see
http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/faq/bibtex.pdf
section 5 (and especially 5.4) which explains what all the {vv}s and
{ll}s etc. do.

On a quick reading, it looks to me as though changing the line

     s nameptr "{f}" format.name$ add.period$ 't := 

to

     s nameptr "{f{}}" format.name$ add.period$ 't := 

should remove the spacing, but I haven't tested it.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

Pont
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Re: Inits without space in bibliography

[Charles]

> On a quick reading, it looks to me as though changing the line
>
>       s nameptr "{f}" format.name$ add.period$ 't :=
>
> to
>
>       s nameptr "{f{}}" format.name$ add.period$ 't :=
>
> should remove the spacing, but I haven't tested it.
>

I don't think it would work as every "field" is separated by a space 
later. But I found here [1] a function to remove the spaces.

Thanks

Charles

[1] ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/btxFAQ.pdf

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