[racket] "and" in author names in scriblib
(Or don't remove it, but also just don't use it.)
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> Oh, I'm not sure of the best way, but way that should work is if you
> port that one by hand. Just remove it from the bibtex file in question
> and write out the corresponding call to make-bib. (I hope you'll find
> that Matthew's API is a lot less painful and error-prone than
> bibtex's!).
>
> You should be able to define the result of the call to make-bib:
>
> (define a-paper (make-bib ... #:author (authors (author-name "Edward L." ....))
>
> and then:
>
> @citet[a-paper]
>
> in your paper (assuming you passed citet as the last argument to
> define-bibtex-cite* or the third to define-bibtex-cite). The docs for
> define-bibtex-cite* are a little unclear to me, but I think it should
> work to do that. I've given up on bibtex, personally, because my
> bibtex code was all crap anyway.
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Joe Gibbs Politz <joe at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>>> You can just edit the file in your copy of racket and then run 'raco setup'.
>>
>> Good point, thanks, that'll work in a pinch for the final build.
>>
>> Still open to other ideas, because among myself and my co-authors
>> there are probably half a dozen machines that this might end up
>> getting built on, so something that works without editing Racket would
>> be a plus.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>> 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"))
>>
>> Where can I put that? Right now all the bib info is in a bibtex file
>> and being imported via define-bibtex-cite with a lot of other
>> citations, so I'm not sure how to override that only partially with
>> this list. Can I add new citations to the thing that gets generated
>> from define-bibtex-cite, so I can keep all the existing citations in
>> bibtex and just write this one out in the long form?
>>
>> Sorry for my ignorance, the bibtex/citation stuff in Scribble is a bit
>> magical to me and usually just works for the most part, so I don't
>> actually understand what's going on underneath.
>>
>> Thanks!