[OS X TeX] MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 88, Issue 7

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Feb 12, 2015, at 4:18 AM, Henk Verkuyl <hjv1 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Herb and/or Dick,
> 
> I have a question about the Dutch ‘van’ in names like Johan van Benthem and Michiel van Lambalgen.
> 
> Suppose I want to have:
> 
> Benthem, J. van
> 
> Then in my Bibdesk, I have
> 
> Benthem, Johan van
> 
> and in the case of co-authorship:
> 
> Lambalgen, Michiel van and Fritz Hamm.
> 
> Natbib takes care of changing Johan to J. and Michiel to M and Fritz to F..
> 
> However, it also changes ‘van’ into “v.’ Which I do not want to have.
> 
> I have tried:
> 
> Lambalgen, ({Michiel} van
> 
> Lambalgen, ({Michiel} {van}
> 
> Lambalgen, ({Michiel van}
> 
> but that doesn’t make a change. Is there any way to get:
> 
> Lambalgen, M. van and F. Hamm
> Benthem, J. van
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Henk Verkuyl
> 

Howdy,

I afraid I'm certainly no expert on setting up bibliographies but I'd suspect there are others on this list who know quite a bit of what is needed.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)