[XeTeX] Multiple citation styles in a single document

[Alan Munn]

On Sep 19, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Pierre Morel wrote:

> Since the "biblio" mailing list seems to be rather inactive, I'm  
> posting on this list to which I'm subscribed, sorry for my question  
> being not directly xetex related (even if I'm using xetex!).
>
> I'm writing my thesis in French, but it includes my published or to- 
> be published articles in English. All is in a single document in  
> order to have correct figure and page numberings (but with  
> multiple .tex files of course). I use natbib for the bilbiography.
>
> After my problems with hyperref, which were quite minor and are  
> solved, I'm stumbling on something much more serious:
> Depeding on the bibliography style I choose (plainnat or plainnat- 
> fr), the language in the citation changes, the most obvious one  
> being the switch from (Author1 and Author2, year) to (Author1 et  
> Author2). The first being quite unsettling in the middle of the  
> french parts (because of the "and") while the second looks weird in  
> the english parts. For more than two authors, the typography changes  
> on the "et al" (normal text for English, italic for French).
> So my question is the following : how to choose two different  
> citation styles for different sections of the same document ?
> (only the first \bibliographystyle{} command seems to be taken in  
> account).


I don't think this is possible to do using natbib.  But it's easy to  
do using biblatex.  Biblatex is babel-aware, so if if you switch  
languages it will switch citation styles automatically.

It's usually not to difficult to convert a document from using natbib  
to biblatex either, since  your citation commands can stay the same.

(Note also, that using biblatex doesn't *require* using biber  
(although the two are designed to work together.)  So you can still  
use your existing bib file along with bibtex to do the sorting etc. I  
mention this, because especially when using XeLaTeX, there's lots of  
interest in using biber and biblatex since biber is Unicode-aware.)


Alan

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