Re: Bug in jox.bst: doesn't like verbatim authors

Dear Seb,

I suffer from a similar problem (with medieval names, like Amalarius
of Metz, Pope John XII, or Benedict of Nursia).  One kludge that seems
to work:  put the name in an \mbox{}.  This is not a great solution,
because it will interfere with line breaking and hyphenation in your
footnotes.  Since the "author" comes first in the bibliography,
though, this shouldn't be a problem there.  It seems also to work if
you use several mboxes, one for each word.  This at least allows the
words to be split up for line breaking in the notes.

If anyone has a more elegant solution to this problem, I'd be grateful
to learn it.

Jesse

--- In [email protected], Seb Wills <saw27@m...> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Jesse for help with my incollinname question.
> 
> My current issue seems to be a bug(?) in jox.bst.
> 
> I have a couple of entries in my .bib which have institutional authors 
> such as "Home Office, Great Britain", which obviously shouldn't be 
> formatted as ordinary names. (Although it's amusing to note that in
this 
> particular example, "G.B. Home Office" kind of works :) ). As far as I 
> know, the correct way to handle this is to put the whole author in an 
> extra set of braces in the .bib file:
> 
>    author = {{Home Office, Great Britain}},
> 
> which should cause the name to 
> be used verbatim. This seems to work fine with standard bibtex, 'plain' 
> style. It also works with jurabib using the jurabib style.
> 
> But if I try this with jox.bst (either with or without jurabib
package), 
> latex bombs out with something like this:
> 
> [1] (./jtest.bbl
> ! Argument of \jb@lbibitem has an extra }.
> <inserted text>
>                  \par
> l.6 ...[{{H}me Office, Great Britain}\jbdy {1994}}
>                                                    %
> ?
> 
> (Note what it has done to the word "Home" in that error message, btw - 
> that must give a clue to the underlying problem)
> 
> A complete minimal example document giving this problem is below.
> 
> Any ideas/fixes?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Seb
> 
> example:
> 
> == jtest.tex ==
> 
> \documentclass{report}
> 
> \usepackage{jurabib}
> 
> \begin{document}
> \chapter{First Chapter}
> 
> Hello.\cite{Home1994offenders}
> 
> \newpage
> \bibliography{jtest}
> \bibliographystyle{jox}
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> == jtest.bib ==
> 
> @BOOK{Home1994offenders,
>    shorttitle = {The offenders index},
>    title = {The offenders index: a short guide to the offenders
index and its
>      uses},
>    publisher = {Home Office},
>    year = {1994},
>    author = {{Home Office, Great Britain}},
>    address = {London},
>    edition = {4th},
> }
> 
> ===
> 
> The above fails. It works if you change jox to jurabib.




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