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From: jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons)
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Subject: Re: BiBTeX: Journal Abbreviations
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Date: 18 Mar 91 13:54:50 GMT
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In-reply-to: bjornl@sics.se's message of 15 Mar 91 11:05:19 GMT

bjornl@sics.se (Bj|rn Lisper) writes

> This works reasonably well if you always want, say, the abbreviated form,
> but it is a pain if you produce documents with different formats of journal
> names.

Can't you just have a longstrings.bib and a shortstrings.bib, which say

   @STRING{tcs = "Theoretical Computer Science"}

and

   @STRING{tcs = "Theoret.\ Comput.\ Sci."}

respectively? Then your \bibliography command looks at the relevant one.
(You can define your own \mybib command that does a \bibliography with a
few extra files thrown in.)

The problem with doing this sort of thing in the .bst file is that you end
up with an exponential number of slightly-different .bsts lying around. Tom
Schneider got round this by allowing switches in a .bst, which can be
toggled from the document. (You could have a switch for short titles, a
switch for abstracts, etc).

Jeremy

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