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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 index 8828376fbf1..969c01a8056 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-manyauthor.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-manyauthor.html @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ <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’) +<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, +“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 @@ -15,25 +15,25 @@ Last, First Last, Suffix, First </pre> </blockquote><p> -and lists of names should be separated with “<code>and</code>”. +and lists of names should be separated with “<code>and</code>”. For example: <blockquote> <pre> -AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs, John P. Doe & +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 +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 +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 +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> @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ AUTHOR = {Fred Q. Bloggs and John P. Doe and </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 +“<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> |