From: Vittorio Coti Zelati (zelati@cds.unina.it)
Date: 8 Mar 01, 00:38 EST
From: Vittorio Coti Zelati <zelati@cds.unina.it>
Subject: Re: A small problem with Alpha and BibTeX 1.1.8
>As you probably know, I inherited Bib mode, and this part of the
>formatting is a legacy from the original author(s). I don't know the
>rationale for stripping any braces from a field that contains the hash.
>It could easily be changed -- if anyone has any further information on
>when the braces should or should not be stripped please let me know.
>My guess is that the line
>
> [regexp {\#} $value]]
>
>might need more elaboration.
From the bibtex documentation:
You can now have as a field value (or an @STRING definition) the
concatenation of several strings. For example if you've defined
@STRING( WGA = " World Gnus Almanac" )
then it's easy to produce nearly-identical title fields for different entries:
@BOOK(almanac-66,
title = 1966 # WGA,
. . .
@BOOK(almanac-67,
title = 1967 # WGA,
and so on. Or, you could have a field like
month = "1~" # jan,
which would come out something like
1~January or 1~Jan.
in the bbl file, depending on how your bibliography style defines the
jan abbreviation.
You may concatenate as many strings as you like (except that there's
a limit to the overall length of the resulting field); just be sure
to put the concatenation character #, surrounded by optional spaces
or newlines, between each successive pair of strings.
I checked and it seems to me that bibtex mode formats correctly entries like
"New " # WGA (here WGA must be defined by a @STRING command)
"New " # " World Gnus Almanac"
but it fails to format correctly valid entries like
"New \# World Gnus Almanac"
I will try to see if I can find a fix.
ciao
Vittorio Coti Zelati
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