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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-manyauthor.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-manyauthor.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8828376fbf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-manyauthor.html @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label manyauthor</title> +</head><body> +<h3>BibTeX doesn’t understand lists of names</h3> +<p/>BibTeX has a strict syntax for lists of authors’ (or editors’) +names in the BibTeX data file; if you write the list of names in a +“natural”-seeming way, the chances are you will confuse BibTeX, +and the output produced will be quite different from what you had +hoped. +<p/>Names should be expressed in one of the forms +<blockquote> +<pre> +First Last +Last, First +Last, Suffix, First +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +and lists of names should be separated with “<code>and</code>”. +For example: +<blockquote> +<pre> +AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs, John P. Doe & + Another Idiot} +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +falls foul of two of the above rules: a syntactically significant +comma appears in an incorrect place, and ‘<code>\</code><code>&</code>’ is being used as a +name separator. The output of the above might be something like: +<blockquote> +<pre> +John P. Doe & Another Idiot Fred Q. Bloggs +</pre> + +</blockquote><p> +because “John P. Doe & Another Idiot has become the ‘first name’, +while “Fred Q. Bloggs” has become the ‘last name’ of a single +person. The example should have been written: +<blockquote> + +<pre> +AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs and John P. Doe and + Another Idiot} +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +Some bibliography styles implement clever acrobatics with very long +author lists. You can force truncation by using the pseudo-name +“<code>others</code>”, which will usually translate to something like +“<em>et al</em>” in the typeset output. So, if Mr. Bloggs wanted to +distract attention from his co-authors, he would write: +<blockquote> +<pre> +AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs and others} +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manyauthor">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manyauthor</a> +</body> |