[texhax] bibtex question: No line feeds between entriesbibliography output format

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> I am using the abbr bib style, but instead of something like this:

I assume you mean abbrv.bst

> [1] J. Shorter. Hsp104 a weapon to combat diverse 
> neurodegenerative disorders. NeuroSignals, 16:63-74, 2008.
> 
> [2] S. Sipione and E. Cattaneo. Modeling Huntingtons disease 
> in cells, flies, and mice. Molecular Neurobiology, 23(1):23-51, 2001.
> 
> [3] S. Sipione and E. Cattaneo. Yeast genes that enhance 
> toxicity of a mutant huntintin fragment ir alphasynuclein. 
> Science, 302:1769-1772, 2003.
> 
> 
> I would like to have something like this:
> 
> [1] J. Shorter. Hsp104 a weapon to combat diverse 
> neurodegenerative disorders. NeuroSignals, 16:63-74, 2008. 
> [2] S. Sipione and E. Cattaneo. Modeling Huntingtons disease 
> in cells, flies, and mice. Molecular Neurobiology, 
> 23(1):23-51, 2001. [3] S. Sipione and E. Cattaneo. Yeast 
> genes that enhance toxicity of a mutant huntintin fragment ir 
> alphasynuclein. Science, 302:1769-1772, 2003.
> 
> Yes, all entries without separating line feeds. If you are 
> wondering, it is for a space-limited proposal.

This is a very nasty hack, but it does what you want.

Either

1) Just after the begin{thebibliography} line in your bbl file put

\makeatletter\def\item{\refstepcounter\@listctr\@itemlabel\space}\makeatothe
r

but you will need to redo it every time you run BibTeX, or

2) Edit abbrv.bst and call it something different (e.g., abbrvhacked.bst),
then just after the line

  "\begin{thebibliography}{"  longest.label  * "}" * write$ newline$

add

 
"\makeatletter\def\item{\refstepcounter\@listctr\@itemlabel\space}\makeatoth
er" write$ newline$

Then, of course, use \bibliographystyle{abbrvhacked} in your main LaTeX
file.  For this to be found by BibTeX, you will need to either refresh your
filename database, or save it in your current working directory.

Cheers,  Phil