Lord Rayleigh

[mforbes]

It turns out that citing papers by Lord Rayleigh is quite a challenge with BibTeX. Here are a couple of suggestions, neither of which works out of the box with sphinxcontrib-bibtex. Any suggestions for a solution?

• https://texfaq.org/FAQ-bibprefixsort

  Recommends definining something like the following to sort differently than displayed:

  @preamble{ {\providecommand{\noopsort}[1]{}} }
  @article{Rayleigh:1882,
      author = "{\noopsort{Rayleigh}}{Lord Rayleigh}",
      doi = {10.1080/14786448208628425},
      eprint = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14786448208628425},
      journal = {The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science},
      number = {87},
      pages = {184-186},
      publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
      title = {On the equilibrium of liquid conducting masses charged with electricity},
      volume = {14},
      year = {1882}}

  This relies on LaTeX being able to process the \noopsort command, which I don't see a good way of making work in the Sphinx context. (Though this is my preferred solution as it allows me to use journal-defined bst files.)

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/147932/peerage-titles-in-the-author-field-in-bibtex

  Recommends redefining the style to support a nameaddon field:

  @article{Rayleigh:1882,
          author = {Strutt, John William},
          nameaddon = {3rd Baron Rayleigh},  % Or {Lord Rayleigh}
      doi = {10.1080/14786448208628425},
      eprint = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14786448208628425},
      journal = {The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science},
      number = {87},
      pages = {184-186},
      publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
      title = {On the equilibrium of liquid conducting masses charged with electricity},
      volume = {14},
      year = {1882}}

The second could probably be made to work by customizing the style (have not tried that yet). Is there another option that might be preferable?

[mcmtroffaes]

Whatever the solution be, this would require some changes to pybtex, as that's essentially responsible for all bibtex entry formatting. I've forwarded your issue on the pybtex issue tracker:

https://bitbucket.org/pybtex-devs/pybtex/issues/155/support-non-standard-name-formats-such-as

[mforbes]

Thanks for forwarding this. I have not yet isolated pybtex behaviour from the whole Sphinx system.

[mcmtroffaes]

Sure, no problem at all!

[mcmtroffaes]

Closing as this is a purely upstream issue.