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BIB[La]TeX authorname-parsing algorithm
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Peter Flynn
Nov 21, 2009, 12:32:44 PM11/21/09
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I want to point the authors of a bibliographic package at the algorithm
(or its implementation) for parsing author (or editor) names, as done in
BIBTeX, biblatex, etc.
(or its implementation) for parsing author (or editor) names, as done in
BIBTeX, biblatex, etc.
Is this available as a separate file, or is it the code which is
embedded in the bibtex/base/bst/*.bst files? Is it documented anywhere?
///Peter
Joseph Wright
Nov 21, 2009, 12:39:40 PM11/21/09
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I assume you mean the one in BibTeX that can understand
Other, A. N., III and Fred Bloggs and ...
and pick out the names and separate parts. I'd probably take a look at
either the BibTeX source or the code for biblatex-biber (which must
implement the same thing in Perl).
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Joseph Wright
Adam R. Maxwell
Nov 22, 2009, 3:29:27 PM11/22/09
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AFAIK you'd have to read the BibTeX source itself for that. The
btparse library implementation is described here, though:
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/AMBS/btparse-0.35/doc/bt_split_names.pod
BibDesk uses the btparse C library for parsing, and it's been quite
good (and is well documented).
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Adam Maxwell
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