[OS X TeX] biblatex authors delimiter

[Alex Hamann]

I tried to look into the issue a little more and I actually do not  
think it is a citestyle problem. The behaviour seems to be defined in  
biblatex.def, not in any of the bbx or cbx files:

% Delimiters used in citations, bibliography, list of shorthands

\newcommand*{\multinamedelim}{\addcomma\space}
\newcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{%
   \ifnum\value{liststop}>2 \finalandcomma\fi
   \addspace\bibstring{and}\space}
\newcommand*{\revsdnamedelim}{\addcomma}
\newcommand*{\andothersdelim}{\addspace}



Cheers,
Alex

Am 10.02.2007 um 23:44 schrieb Simon Spiegel:

> From a very short glance this seems to be a problem in the specific  
> citestyle and not of biblatex per se. I'll have  a closer look  
> tomorrow.
>
> simon
>
>
> On 10.02.2007, at 21:00, Alex Hamann wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just started to migrate to bibLaTeX from Jurabib. All very  
>> promising but I ran into a problem concerning multiple authors:
>> A book entry with 3 authors is correctly displayed in the output as:
>> "author 1, author 2, and author 3" (english)
>> "author 1, author 2 and author 3" (babel with german)
>>
>> however, with 2 authors only I get:
>> "author 1, and author 2" (both languages)
>> whereas it should be : "author 1 and author 2"
>> (clearly "and" will be translated in German. I am just pointing at  
>> the the use of ",")
>>
>> Minimal example
>> (do not get irritated by "bibstyle=myownstyle". I was busy  
>> creating my own style when I ran into the problem. However, as you  
>> can see below, I tested with the styles provided by the biblatex  
>> package)
>>
>> TeX-file:
>>
>> %begin minimal example tex-file
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
>> \usepackage[german]{babel}
>> \usepackage[bibstyle=myownstyle, citestyle=authortitle]{biblatex} % 
>> has also been tested with bibstyle=standard, bibstyle=authortitle  
>> with the same result
>> \bibliography{Preussentest.bib}
>> \begin{document}
>> blablabla\cite{Asch:1996vn}
>> adsfsjdfljadsf\\
>> asdfasdfasfd\\
>> sdfjasdfjasljfj\cite{Asch:1996rn}
>> \printbibliography
>> \end{document}
>> %end minimal example tex-file
>>
>> Bib-file:
>>
>> %begin minimal example bib-file
>> %% This BibTeX bibliography file was created using BibDesk.
>> %% http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
>> %% Created for Alex at 2007-02-10 19:27:41 +0100
>> %% Saved with string encoding Western (Windows Latin 1)
>>
>> @book{Asch:1996rn,
>> 	Address = {Köln},
>> 	Author = {Asch, Ronald G. and Duchhardt, Heinz},
>> 	Booktitle = {Der Absolutismus - ein Mythos? Strukturwandel  
>> monarchischer Herrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa (ca. 1550 -  
>> 1700)},
>> 	Shorttitle = {Absolutismus},
>> 	Title = {Der Absolutismus - ein Mythos? Strukturwandel  
>> monarchischer Herrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa (ca. 1550 -  
>> 1700)},
>> 	Year = {1996},
>>
>> @book{Asch:1996vn,
>> 	Address = {Köln},
>> 	Author = {Asch, Ronald G. and Duchhardt, Heinz and Neugebauer,  
>> Wolfgang},
>> 	Booktitle = {Der Absolutismus - ein Mythos? Strukturwandel  
>> monarchischer Herrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa (ca. 1550 -  
>> 1700)},
>> 	Shorttitle = {Absolutismus},
>> 	Title = {Der Absolutismus - ein Mythos? Strukturwandel  
>> monarchischer Herrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa (ca. 1550 -  
>> 1700)},
>> %end minimal example bib-file
>>
>>
>> did anybody else run into this and got it solved (Simon?)
>>
>> Alex
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