[OS X TeX] biblatex authors delimiter

[Simon Spiegel]

On 12.02.2007, at 09:38, Alex Hamann wrote:

> 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}

Sorry, didn't have time to look into this. Maybe later today. Anyway,  
if it's in biblatex.def, you can easily redefine it.

simon
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> 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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