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--- latex_bibtex_advice [2022/01/20 16:54] – [Don't force unnecessary capitalization in titles] gschaden
+++ latex_bibtex_advice [2022/07/29 07:03] (current) – gschaden
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 ====== LaTeX and BibLaTeX advice ======
-We are transitioning to unicode, and we therefore encourage you to use a unicode-enabled LaTeX engine (XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX). Please use utf-8 as your text encoding.
+We have transitioned to unicode, and we therefore encourage you to use a unicode-enabled LaTeX engine (XeLaTeX). In any case, please use utf-8 as your text encoding.
-We are aware that LaTeX users vary significantly in how proficiently they use LaTeX and BibTeX. In what follows, we mention those points of LaTeX and BibLaTeX usage that we insist on. If anything is unclear, please don't hesitate to ask.((This page will be expanded as needed.))
+We are aware that LaTeX users vary significantly in how proficiently they use LaTeX and Bib(La)TeX. In what follows, we mention those points of LaTeX and BibLaTeX usage that we insist on. If anything is unclear, please don't hesitate to ask.((This page will be expanded as needed.))
 ===== LaTeX =====
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 The latter will continue to work.
-We use BibLaTeX with the ''natbib'' switch, so all commands you are used to from ''natbib'' should work and behave as expected.
+We use BibLaTeX with the ''natbib'' switch, and thus, all ''natbib'' commands  should work and behave as expected. You can continue to use the following and more:
 <file latex>
-  \cite{chomsky1995}
+  \cite{chomsky1995}   % discouraged by natbib
   \citet[12]{chomsky1995}
   \citep[see, e.g.][12]{chomsky1995}
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 In this case, the problem is that this wouldn't force of the capitalization of ''English'', which would be incorrect, and it also wouldn't allow for the capitalization of ''sound'' or ''pattern'', which again may contradict the chosen bibliographic style.
-Naturally, what was said above applies to titles of works in English. Other languages, for example, French, don't have a tradition of Title case, and in the case of German, the orthography requires all nouns to be capitalized. In such cases, do not force the capitalization of all common nouns by enclosing it in brackets, but rather add a special ''LANGID'' identifier to your BIBITEM:
+==== References in languages other than English ====
+Naturally, what was said above applies to titles of works in English. Other languages, for example, French, don't have a tradition of title case, and in the case of German, the orthography requires all nouns to be capitalized.
+In such cases, do not force the capitalization of all common nouns by enclosing it in brackets, but rather add a special ''LANGID'' identifier, and let BibLaTeX do the rest:
 <file bibtex>