[OS X TeX] Installing the Harvard Package

Wed Nov 15 15:35:11 CET 2006

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I wrote an  
applescript/shell script to install harvard and apacite and a couple  
of styles; it works for me (10.4.x, ppc/x86), but I haven't tested it  
on anything other than my lab machines.

http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jhamner/install_tex_styles.zip

Please try it and let me know if it works (actually, let me know if  
it doesn't work too). It probably won't work on the new TeXLive  
installs, but I'll fix that around 1 January when GWTeX stops active  
development.

I haven't tried natbib, because harvard and the apsr style are what I  
need.

Jesse

On Nov 15, 2006, at 1:45 AM, Alex Hamann wrote:

>
> Am 14.11.2006 um 23:24 schrieb François Briatte:
>
> [snip]
>>
>> It did not. So, following Alan's advice, I tested natbib, which I
>> remember using in the past, but never with BibDesk. The formatting is
>> still not what I am looking for.
>>
>> To keep it simple, anyone knows a style that would give the following
>> formattings?
>>
>
> you could try to create your own bst with makebst. Not sure if you  
> will get exactly the right output but it is worth a try and makebst  
> is really easy to use.
>
> Alex
>
>
>> *
>>
>> Hello World (Rawls, 1971).
>>
>> …
>>
>> Harmer, H. T. (1999) The Longman Companion to the Labour Party
>> 1900-1998. London: Longman.
>>
>> Abrahams, P. (1998) 'Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the  
>> State', Journal of
>> Historical Sociology, 1 (1), 15-21.
>>
>> *
>>
>> Just to wap everything up, my real concern may be that overall, I am
>> looking a style which does not exist. In which case I will feel sorry
>> for bothering the list!
>>
>> François
>>
>>
>> On 11/14/06, Alan Munn <amunn at msu.edu> wrote:
>>> At 7:16 PM +0000 11/14/06, François Briatte wrote:
>>> >Dear all,
>>> >
>>> >I have recently installed TeX on my MacBook, OSX 10.4.8. I am now
>>> >trying to install the Harvard package (I am quite dependent on this
>>> >package, i.e. I cannot just switch to another one).
>>> >
>>> >(a)
>>> >
>>> >I have created the following folder hierarchy: ~/texmf/tex/ 
>>> harvard and
>>> >dropped the contents of the harvard.zip archive (downloaded from  
>>> CTAN)
>>> >into it.
>>> >
>>> >(b)
>>> >
>>> >When I launch BibDesk and ask to preview my references using  
>>> harvard
>>> >as BibTeX style, I get a long error log, copied below.
>>> >
>>> >(c)
>>> >
>>> >I did not modify the BibDesk TeX template, I did not modify my TeX
>>> >install (Basic install from Wierda's i-installer).
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >- Am I doing something wrong in (a) or (b) or even (c) ?
>>> >- Is there an incompatibility between the package and my  
>>> hardware, OS,
>>> >software choices?
>>> >- Does anyone know the situation?
>>> >- How can I get the package to work?
>>> >
>>> >Many thanks for any tips or workarounds.
>>> >
>>> >FB
>>>
>>> Just to be clear on what you have done and what
>>> you are doing.  The following is what should be
>>> installed where for the harvard package and where
>>> (assuming an installation in texmf.local (if you
>>> put these in your ~/Library folder then the paths
>>> would read ~/Library/texmf/ in place of
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/ (i.e. the
>>> other folders should exist or be constructed.)
>>> (Only the first block of files is critical for
>>> the package to work.)
>>>
>>>   /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bib/harvard/harvard.bib
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/agsm.bst
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/apsr.bst
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/dcu.bst
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/jmr.bst
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/ 
>>> jphysicsB.bst
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/kluwer.bst
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/harvard/ 
>>> nederlands.bst
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex/harvard/harvard.sty
>>>
>>> documentation files:
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/doc/latex/harvard/harvard.dvi
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/doc/latex/harvard/README
>>> source files:
>>>    /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/source/harvard-src.cab
>>>
>>> To USE the harvard package, you need to do two things:
>>>
>>> You need a \usepackage{harvard} in your preamble (this loads the  
>>> harvard style)
>>> You need to select a bibliography style from the
>>> list above (i.e. one of the bst files).  There is
>>> no harvard bib syle per se, only .bst files that
>>> correspond to particular journals or associations
>>> etc. (There may be others available that are
>>> compatible with the harvard style as well, but
>>> these are not included with the package.)
>>>
>>> The bibliography can be invoked with the
>>> bibliographystyle command in your document, or
>>> passed as an option in the \usepackage command
>>> (e.g. \usepackage[kluwer]{harvard})
>>>
>>> Then everything should work.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> P.S.  I've found that natbib offers all of the
>>> same functionality of harvard but with a lot more
>>> flexibility (like custom bib), so unless you
>>> absolutely need harvard (and not just the
>>> functionality of Author/Year citations), you
>>> might want to look into the natbib documentation.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alan Munn
>>> amunn at msu.edu
>>> Department of Linguistics
>>> and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages   Fax.   
>>> +1-517-432-2736
>>> Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824       Tel.   
>>> +1-517-355-7491
>>> ------------------------- Info --------------------------

Jesse Hamner
Coordinator, Social Sciences Computing Center
Emory University

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