[racket] "and" in author names in scriblib

Oh, and of course you could just use:

   (authors (author-name "Edward L." "Deci")
           (author-name "Robert J." "Vallerand")
           (author-name "Luc G." "Pelletier")
           (author-name "Richard M." "Ryan"))

Robby


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Joe Gibbs Politz <joe at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>> I was getting some odd behavior on authors whose names ended in "and"
>> when compiling a bibliography, and dug into the source a bit.  A
>> little armchair debugging: should this line
>>
>> https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/88d8a2a9f86b15b3c65cdc232ec05cc6a0f5d6bd/pkgs/scribble-pkgs/scribble-lib/scriblib/bibtex.rkt#L219
>>
>> have the regex
>>
>> #rx"* and *"
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> #rx" *and *"
>
> Probably it should be #rx" +and *" (ie, at least one space followed by
> "and" instead any number of spaces, possibly zero, followed by "and").
>
>> Right now, for an author list like
>>
>> "Edward L. Deci and Robert J. Vallerand and Luc G. Pelletier and
>> Richard M. Ryan"
>>
>> I get output like
>>
>> "Edward L. Deci, Robert J. Valler, , Luc G. Pelletier, and Richard M. Ryan"
>>
>> If this is in fact the problem, any ideas for a good hack to work
>> around this in the bib format for now without building from
>> bleeding-edge Racket?
>
> You can just edit the file in your copy of racket and then run 'raco setup'.
>
> Robby