[OS X TeX] biblatex authors delimiter

Alex Hamann Alexander.Hamann at stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Sat Feb 10 21:00:15 CET 2007


Hello,

I just started to migrate to bibLaTeX from Jurabib. All very  
promising but I ran into a problem concerning multiple authors:
A book entry with 3 authors is correctly displayed in the output as:
"author 1, author 2, and author 3" (english)
"author 1, author 2 and author 3" (babel with german)

however, with 2 authors only I get:
"author 1, and author 2" (both languages)
whereas it should be : "author 1 and author 2"
(clearly "and" will be translated in German. I am just pointing at  
the the use of ",")

Minimal example
(do not get irritated by "bibstyle=myownstyle". I was busy creating  
my own style when I ran into the problem. However, as you can see  
below, I tested with the styles provided by the biblatex package)

TeX-file:

%begin minimal example tex-file
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[bibstyle=myownstyle, citestyle=authortitle]{biblatex} % 
has also been tested with bibstyle=standard, bibstyle=authortitle  
with the same result
\bibliography{Preussentest.bib}
\begin{document}
blablabla\cite{Asch:1996vn}
adsfsjdfljadsf\\
asdfasdfasfd\\
sdfjasdfjasljfj\cite{Asch:1996rn}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
%end minimal example tex-file

Bib-file:

%begin minimal example bib-file
%% This BibTeX bibliography file was created using BibDesk.
%% http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
%% Created for Alex at 2007-02-10 19:27:41 +0100
%% Saved with string encoding Western (Windows Latin 1)

@book{Asch:1996rn,
	Address = {Köln},
	Author = {Asch, Ronald G. and Duchhardt, Heinz},
	Booktitle = {Der Absolutismus - ein Mythos? Strukturwandel  
monarchischer Herrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa (ca. 1550 - 1700)},
	Shorttitle = {Absolutismus},
	Title = {Der Absolutismus - ein Mythos? Strukturwandel monarchischer  
Herrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa (ca. 1550 - 1700)},
	Year = {1996},

@book{Asch:1996vn,
	Address = {Köln},
	Author = {Asch, Ronald G. and Duchhardt, Heinz and Neugebauer,  
Wolfgang},
	Booktitle = {Der Absolutismus - ein Mythos? Strukturwandel  
monarchischer Herrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa (ca. 1550 - 1700)},
	Shorttitle = {Absolutismus},
	Title = {Der Absolutismus - ein Mythos? Strukturwandel monarchischer  
Herrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa (ca. 1550 - 1700)},
%end minimal example bib-file


did anybody else run into this and got it solved (Simon?)

Alex
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