Series layout for books.

[russella]

Dear Marco,

Consider the following entry:

@book{Pan,
  author    = {Victor Y. Pan},
  title     = {How to Multiply Matrices Faster},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {179},
  year      = {1984}
}

plain lays this out as:

Victor Y. Pan. How to Multiply Matrices Faster, volume 179 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 1984.

The current trad-plain code lays this out as:

Victor Y. Pan. How to multiply matrices faster. Volume 179 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 1984 (cited on page 502).

(In both cases, the title is italicized.)

So, I suppose there are two issues:

1. There should be a comma (CHANGED!) between the book title and the volume data.
2. The title shouldn't be sentence-case (this is probably a duplicate issue).

All the best, Alex

[marcodaniel]

Hi,

you mentioned 2 issues. I think the second one is fixed by the solution of issue 7. Of course If I am wrong, please contact me.

I think there is a small confusion. Between the book title and the volume date I have a period. Do you mean comma?

regards Marco

PS: By the way: I am not a native English speaker, so I am making mistakes and sometimes I can't understand English sentences correct. -- sorry.

[russella]

Dear Marco,

My apologies! My description was unclear and misleading.

The BiBTeX plain style lays out a book that is a part of a series as

Victor Y. Pan. How to Multiply Matrices Faster, volume 179 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 1984.

whereas trad-plain lays it out as:

Victor Y. Pan. How to multiply matrices faster. Volume 179 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 1984 (cited on page 502).

So, it seems to me that

• in the case of a series, there should be a comma after the title, and a lowercase "v" for Volume.

All the best, Alex

[marcodaniel]

Hi,

this can be achieved by changing the declaration of the bibliography driver book.

The current part was:

\usebibmacro{byeditor+others}%
\newunit\newblock
\usebibmacro{book:series+number}%

which can be changed to

\usebibmacro{byeditor+others}%
\newcommaunit\newblock
\usebibmacro{book:series+number}%

The v of volume will be printed in lowercase automatically. biblatex is a great tool

regards Marco