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Thanks a lot. Very useful!

Hey fellas! Don't you have any suggestions?!

Hi all

I have problem with the "von" part and the "dash" in author surnames, when using "alpha" BibTeX style:

Assume that there are a number of authors whose surnames start with X, Y, Z, and:

1) Ben-Or : I like to see a citation like [BXYZ92], not [BOXY+92]. In other words, I want Ben-Or to be ...

This forum used to be much more active!
I was expecting a workaround within several hours, but it's been several days and no response. [...]
With regard to your join date I think that you are not really qualified to gage that. Take into account that recently there has been Christmas and turn of ...

This forum used to be much more active!
I was expecting a workaround within several hours, but it's been several days and no response.

Could anyone help me on this, please?

I have a two-column page, and defined a ``theorem like'' environment for my definitions:


\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}
\begin{document}
\noindent
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod ...

\begin{definition}[A very ...

I use the bibliography style "Alpha" for BibTeX. It is vey good, but sometimes I like to override the label it gives to a citation. For example, look at this:

@inproceedings{br93,
Author={Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway},
...
Year={1993}
}

BibTeX Alpha produces [BR93] as citation key, while I ...

\bibliographystyle{alpha}

There are a multitude of styles that will organize your references this way; alpha.bst is only one of them.

I think he doesn't want alphabetical "labels"; he merely wants alphabetical sorting.

@ruchir_iit: You may try the "cite" package with "sort" option enabled. Does ...

dnemoc wrote:Please check this document: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Ca ... hmode.html page 108 towards the bottom.

Thanks a lot. My problem is solved, and better yet: I got familiar with the above excellent paper.

LaTeX seems to force proper nesting of \overbrace and \underbrace. But I need something like the one shown in the picture (see the attachment). Any ideas?