[texhax] .bib "challenge" (AKA problem..!)

[Fabian Scheler]

Hi,

what about macros? In one file you define macros containing the full
name and in an other file you define macros containing the abbreviated
names. In the main bibtex-file you refer top these macros instead of
typing the real name of the journal. Within your tex-file you can now
use the file containing the macros with the full or the abbreviated
names.

Ciao, Fabian

On 8/8/05, Spank <tuche at tin.it> wrote:
>  
> Enlightened TeX gurus,
> 
> I am writing an article, and have a specific bibliographystyle quite close 
> to the formatting required. Now here is the problem: in the "journal" field 
> of the .bib file I have the full name of the journal for each entry (say, 
> "Proceedings of the national academy of sciences"), yet the journal's 
> bibliography requires abbreviations to be used (in the example it would be 
> "Proc. Nat. Ac.").
> 
> To avoid having to re-write the fields of each entry every time I write for 
> a journal that uses abbreviations or not, is there a way to create some 
> "association list" (intuitively something containing two columns: one with 
> the full name - i.e. the target string - and one with the abbreviated name -
> i.e. the string that replaces the target string - ) and  some command that 
> may look up into the list and apply the changes (i.e. put abbreviations 
> instead of full name) at compiling?
> 
> Hope this is clear enough..!
> 
>  Thanks for any help, cheers
> 
>     Martin
> 
>  
> 
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