[OS X TeX] biblatex authors delimiter

[Simon Spiegel]

 From a very short glance this seems to be a problem in the specific  
citestyle and not of biblatex per se. I'll have  a closer look tomorrow.

simon


On 10.02.2007, at 21:00, Alex Hamann wrote:

> 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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