Hi,
Martin A. Hansen wrote (27.10.2005 10:50):
> excellent! that did it!
Good to know ;-)
> i had this feeling that tweaking of the bst file was required, since
> there unfortunately isnt a way to fix this in the makebst dbj file -
> at least i havnt been able to figure it out.
I don't know a way to rebuild a .bst file from a .dbj file, either. But
I could imagine there is a way...
> i am impressed that you found the spot in the bst file (so fast).
Well, actually, I am myself working on a .bst for the finnish political
science association. So I have tried to "tame the beast"...
But, the .bst file has some logic in it. How I figured out the solution
for Your problem was as follows:
1) E.g. the function "article" is defined from the line #843 onwards.
The _author-date_ (!!) block is formatted as follows:
FUNCTION {article}
{ output.bibitem
format.authors "author" output.check
author format.key output
format.date "year" output.check
date.block
The function "output.bibitem" sets the output.state variable to a value
representing the beginning of a block. The function "date.block" sets
this variable to a value representing the end of a block.
2) When compared with the function "output.check" (because it "closes"
the formatting of the authors) defined as follows (lines 115-121):
FUNCTION {output.check}
{ 't :=
duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ "empty " t * " in " * cite$ * warning$ }
'output.nonnull
if$
}
we can see, if there are authors, the function "output.nonnull" will be
executed.
3) This function is defined from the line 89 onwards:
FUNCTION {output.nonnull}
{ 's :=
output.state mid.sentence =
{ ". " * write$ }
{ output.state after.block =
{ add.period$ write$
newline$
"\newblock " write$
}
{ output.state before.all =
'write$
{ add.period$ " " * write$ }
if$
}
if$
mid.sentence 'output.state :=
}
[...]
Now, when excecuted the first time after the "output.bibitem", the
output.state variable is set to the value of the constant
"mid.sentence" (because the test "output.state mid.sentence =" results
false). This means, because this happens when the _authors_ are
formatted, that the autor and year (or whatever is defined to follow
the authors' names _before_ the block ends) are separated by a
mid-sentence punctuation (which was originally defined as ",")! When
the function "output.nonnull" is once again executed when the date is
formatted, the test "output.state mid.sentence =" will be true and the
next command "{ ". " * write$ }" is executed.
Hope this a bit clarified the logic of a .bst file...
> thanks
You're welcome - var så god!
> martin
Kimmo
