slow bibtex with many co-authors

vtex-soft / texsupport.ims-aos

LaTeX author support files for IMS journal AOS.

https://vtex-soft.github.io/texsupport.ims-aos/

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slow bibtex with many co-authors #5

Closed JohannesBuchner closed 2 months ago

JohannesBuchner commented 2 months ago

With a imsart-nameyear bibtex style, including a entry with many co-authors such as https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023PhRvX..13a1048A/exportcitation is very slow when running bibtex. It also causes other issues https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/2069792

Perhaps the bst code can be improved for cases with a large number of co-authors.

lstonys commented 2 months ago

In traditional bibtex styles person parts are formatted directly via one procedure for example s nameptr "{ff~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}" format.name$. In this style there is a lot off additional tasks to get correct tagging and fix some typing for every person part (first name, surname, prefix, suffix). Bibtex is very limited scripting language so not much can be done for this rear case.