latex code in author names

[ghost]

When Latex code for accents is given in author names, citeproc does not include the comma, space at the end of the name. The code below generates the following output:

Brown, J., & L\'{e}ssS. (2013). A book. Lawrence Erlbaum.
Brown, J., & Less, S. (2013). A book. Lawrence Erlbaum.

The first line should be:

Brown, J., & L\'{e}ss, S. (2013). A book. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Code example:

require 'bibtex'
require 'citeproc'

biblio = BibTeX.parse <<-END
@book{sample1,
  author = {J. Brown and S. L\\'{e}ss},
  title = {A book},
  publisher = {Lawrence Erlbaum},
  year = {2013}
}
@book{sample2,
  author = {J. Brown and S. Less},
  title = {A book},
  publisher = {Lawrence Erlbaum},
  year = {2013}
}
END

item = biblio['sample1']
puts CiteProc.process item.to_citeproc
item = biblio['sample2']
puts CiteProc.process item.to_citeproc

[inukshuk]

There seems to be a problem with the name normalization going on. The citeproc-ruby rewrite is pretty far advanced so this is something that should be fixed in the upcoming release.

However, could you work with unicode, too? BibTeX-Ruby has a converter built-in so you could do this:

b = BibTeX.parse <<-END
  @book{sample1,
    author = {J. Brown and S. L\\'{e}ss},
    title = {A book},
    publisher = {Lawrence Erlbaum},
    year = {2013}
  }
END

b['sample1'].convert_latex
b['sample1'].author.to_s
#-> "Brown, J. and Léss, S."

CiteProc.process b['sample1'].to_citeproc
=> "Brown, J., & Léss, S. (2013). A book. Lawrence Erlbaum."

You can also apply the LaTeX filter right when parsing. See the BibTeX-Ruby Readme for more details.

If you unicode does not work in your case let me know and I'll take another look – otherwise I this is something that will be much easier to debug and customize with the new release.

[ghost]

convert_latex is working, thanks.