[OS X TeX] Installing the Harvard Package

[Alex Hamann]

Am 14.11.2006 um 23:24 schrieb François Briatte:

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>
> It did not. So, following Alan's advice, I tested natbib, which I
> remember using in the past, but never with BibDesk. The formatting is
> still not what I am looking for.
>
> To keep it simple, anyone knows a style that would give the following
> formattings?
>

you could try to create your own bst with makebst. Not sure if you  
will get exactly the right output but it is worth a try and makebst  
is really easy to use.

Alex


> *
>
> Hello World (Rawls, 1971).
>
> …
>
> Harmer, H. T. (1999) The Longman Companion to the Labour Party
> 1900-1998. London: Longman.
>
> Abrahams, P. (1998) 'Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the  
> State', Journal of
> Historical Sociology, 1 (1), 15-21.
>
> *
>
> Just to wap everything up, my real concern may be that overall, I am
> looking a style which does not exist. In which case I will feel sorry
> for bothering the list!
>
> François
>
>
> On 11/14/06, Alan Munn <amunn at msu.edu> wrote:
>> At 7:16 PM +0000 11/14/06, François Briatte wrote:
>> >Dear all,
>> >
>> >I have recently installed TeX on my MacBook, OSX 10.4.8. I am now
>> >trying to install the Harvard package (I am quite dependent on this
>> >package, i.e. I cannot just switch to another one).
>> >
>> >(a)
>> >
>> >I have created the following folder hierarchy: ~/texmf/tex/ 
>> harvard and
>> >dropped the contents of the harvard.zip archive (downloaded from  
>> CTAN)
>> >into it.
>> >
>> >(b)
>> >
>> >When I launch BibDesk and ask to preview my references using harvard
>> >as BibTeX style, I get a long error log, copied below.
>> >
>> >(c)
>> >
>> >I did not modify the BibDesk TeX template, I did not modify my TeX
>> >install (Basic install from Wierda's i-installer).
>> >
>> >
>> >- Am I doing something wrong in (a) or (b) or even (c) ?
>> >- Is there an incompatibility between the package and my  
>> hardware, OS,
>> >software choices?
>> >- Does anyone know the situation?
>> >- How can I get the package to work?
>> >
>> >Many thanks for any tips or workarounds.
>> >
>> >FB
>>
>> Just to be clear on what you have done and what
>> you are doing.  The following is what should be
>> installed where for the harvard package and where
>> (assuming an installation in texmf.local (if you
>> put these in your ~/Library folder then the paths
>> would read ~/Library/texmf/ in place of
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/ (i.e. the
>> other folders should exist or be constructed.)
>> (Only the first block of files is critical for
>> the package to work.)
>>
>>   /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bib/harvard/harvard.bib
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/agsm.bst
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/apsr.bst
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/dcu.bst
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/jmr.bst
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/ 
>> jphysicsB.bst
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/kluwer.bst
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/ 
>> nederlands.bst
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex/harvard/harvard.sty
>>
>> documentation files:
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/doc/latex/harvard/harvard.dvi
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/doc/latex/harvard/README
>> source files:
>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/source/harvard-src.cab
>>
>> To USE the harvard package, you need to do two things:
>>
>> You need a \usepackage{harvard} in your preamble (this loads the  
>> harvard style)
>> You need to select a bibliography style from the
>> list above (i.e. one of the bst files).  There is
>> no harvard bib syle per se, only .bst files that
>> correspond to particular journals or associations
>> etc. (There may be others available that are
>> compatible with the harvard style as well, but
>> these are not included with the package.)
>>
>> The bibliography can be invoked with the
>> bibliographystyle command in your document, or
>> passed as an option in the \usepackage command
>> (e.g. \usepackage[kluwer]{harvard})
>>
>> Then everything should work.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> P.S.  I've found that natbib offers all of the
>> same functionality of harvard but with a lot more
>> flexibility (like custom bib), so unless you
>> absolutely need harvard (and not just the
>> functionality of Author/Year citations), you
>> might want to look into the natbib documentation.
>>
>> --
>> Alan Munn
>> amunn at msu.edu
>> Department of Linguistics
>> and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages   Fax.   
>> +1-517-432-2736
>> Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824       Tel.   
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