Problem with publisher?

[dmiddleton]

Publisher (and location) are lists so "and" has special meaning.

I had to protect {and} in "US Food {and} Drug Administration" to avoid only getting "US Food" in my outoput. The location+publisher macro contains \printlist[default][1-1]{publisher} so only prints the first item in a list.

In the example above, "US Food {and} Drug Administration" it isn't really a list of publishers, so perhaps needs protecting anyway?

There seem to be several cases in https://github.com/dragonfly-science/bibliography/blob/master/dragonfly.bib where this problem will arise, e.g. "Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels" - has anyone else noticed the problem?

Maybe we need a place to keep handy hints?

[edwardabraham]

Hi David, thanks for pointing this out (and for the workaround). Documentation not our strong point. An option would be to patch the location+publisher macro to not do this, although if it is being parsed into a list, that could be tricky. Have you noticed this problem @katrin-berkenbusch ?

[edwardabraham]

.. the workaround is probably the simplest solution, as maintaining patches to the bibliography formatting can be tricky.

[katrin-berkenbusch]

I can't say that I've had this problem, but I may have not had publishers with "and" in their name. For references of "Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels", the name is an author, and I usually protect it {} to get upper case on the nouns. I will have another look to see if I can find an example.