[OS X TeX] \verb in BibTex and a couple other issues...

[Ross Moore]

Hello Lisa,


On 11/05/2004, at 11:14 AM, Lisa Schweitzer wrote:

> I have several agency authors that I need to list in BibTex entries 
> and there are many acronyms that I have to include in titles.  For 
> example,  I need to be able to do:
>
> Southern California Association of Governments. 2003. State of the 
> Region. Los Angeles, CA: Southern California Association of 
> Governments.
>

organisation ="{Southern California Association of Governments}",
                ^-------  use braces --------------------------^


> and
>
> Authorman, Bob. 2003. Risk assessment using TRI data. Risk Assessment 
> Journal, 19:43-190.
>

title = "Risk assessment using {TRI} data.",



> Or somesuch. Bibtex wants to do  "Governments, Southern Calfornia 
> Association of"--no good--and "Risk assessment using tri data"  which 
> is better than the former but still not good.
>
> I thought I could get around this using \verb or \verbatim, but no go. 
> BibTex just omits the entry an tells me the code is undefined.

   No; don't try to use \verb in BibTeX data
    --- .bib files are for information, not for formatting.

>
> Any ideas would be really helpful.


Hope this helps,

	Ross


>
> All best,
>
> Lisa
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Please see <http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/> for list
> guidelines, information, and LaTeX/TeX resources.
>
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ross Moore                                         ross at maths.mq.edu.au
Mathematics Department                             office: E7A-419
Macquarie University                               tel: +61 +2 9850 8955
Sydney, Australia                                  fax: +61 +2 9850 8114
------------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------
Please see <http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/> for list
guidelines, information, and LaTeX/TeX resources.