General ⇒ how to modify the entries of the bibliography

[iperten]

Dear all,

I created my own bibliography style with "latex makebst", but I still want to "compress" it, to save some space.

Basically, I don't want the blank row between one entry and the following: do you have any idea how to do so?

Thank you.
Cheers, Mattia.

[Juanjo]

I don't know if the fact that having defined your own style has varied the usual space between items in the bibliography. Anyway, the bibliography is typeset thanks to the thebibliography environment, as you can see in the bbl file. This environment is essentially a list, similar to enumerate, which is opened by the internal command \thebibliography and closed by \endthebibliography. A trick could consist in changing \thebibliography to delete the extra space added between entries in a list:

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\makeatletter
\let\thebibliographyOLD\thebibliography
\renewcommand{\thebibliography}[1]{\thebibliographyOLD{#1}\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}}
\makeatother

Put this code in the preamble and try it.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Juanjo,

good trick!
I just want to note that \makeatletter and \makeatother are unnecessary in this case.

Stefan

[iperten]

It worked, thank you very much!

Cheers,
MAttia.