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

[Henk Verkuyl]

Thanks Berend, your suggestions were helpful. Henk

> On 12 Feb 2015, at 15:45, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 12-02-2015, at 11:18, 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
>> 
> 
> Let’s start by assuming that I’m not making a fool of myself with this reply.
> 
> It’s the .bst that takes care of all this sort of thing. 
> 
> The “van" is a so-called von part and is treated specially.
> 
> In the .bst there should be a function format.names which will (I hope) contain something like this:
> 
>        { "{ll}{, f{.}.}{~v}{, jj}” } or possibly  { "{ll}{, f{.}.}{~v.}{, jj}" }
> 
> The “v” could also be “vv”.
> 
> If you change that to this you should get what you want
> 
>        { "{ll}{, f{.}.}{~vv}{, jj}” }
> 
> At least that has worked for me in the past. I have no idea whether it still works.
> 
> Send a question to the NTG Tex mailing list (see http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/tex-nl); probably the best thing to do.
> In TeXLive there is a nederlands.bst which may do what you want.
> 
> And have a look at http://www.ntg.nl/bijeen/pdf-s.20031113/BibTeX-tutorial.pdf especially the last sheet named “BST hacking”.
> Also see this discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.text.tex/pQCPH3fwGSE
> 
> You could also try to extend merlin.mbs with some new options.
> Or send a mail to the author of natbib and merlin.mbs with a request to add an additional option specifying the formatting of the “von” part.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Berend Hasselman
> 
> 
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