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

[Spank]

Fabian,

thanks for the help. I couldn't do what I was hoping for, so I just ended up
making a list of

@STRING{JRRC_long = "Journal of Rock and Roll Celebrities"}
@STRING{JRRC_short = "J R. R. Celeb"}

and in my bib file use _short or _long with a simple replace command. I
think your was a bit cooler, but this was fast, and at least I have one list
and don't have to keep on updating 2 files..

Thanks for the help!

 ciao

Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fabian Scheler" <fabian.scheler at gmail.com>
To: "Spank" <tuche at tin.it>
Cc: <texhax at tug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: [texhax] .bib "challenge" (AKA problem..!)


> 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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