That's great! I just wanted to stay with the existing styles before thinking of customization, but now what you have made should do exactly what I need. Thank you, Mehrdad
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Csikos Bela <bcsikos...@freemail.hu> wrote: > Mehrdad Oveisi <move...@gmail.com> írta: > >Thank you for your reply, Csikos. Let me simplify my question a bit. > >What I need is a combination of > > > >-- "abbrv" which abbreviates the authors' first names, and > >-- "alpha" which creates keys like [Tar56] which are short and readable > > > >as in the example in my previous email: > > > >[Tar56] A. Tarski. Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics.... > > > >I am hoping something like that already exists. > > > Hello: > > I don't know if there is a style like that. > > I made a style that might be that you need, see the attached alphabbr.bst > file. I only replaced line 193 of alpha.bst for line 192 of abbrv.bst > file. These > are the lines which define how the names are formatted (format.names > function). > > Apart from this I suggest that you learn to use custom-bib, then you can > define a style according to your needs. > > bcsikos > > > > > > > > Thanks,> > Mehrdad> > > > > >
