Text Formatting ⇒ A problem with 'ampersand' in a bib entry.

[alwayssmile68]

Hi,

I came across a problem with the ampersand in two bib entries. It always produced a strange symbol as follows:

@ARTICLE{Johnson1979,
author = {Johnson, S. C.},
title = {{Yacc: Yet Another Compiler Compiler}},
journal = {UNIX Programmer's Manual, AT\&T Bell Laboratories},
year = {1979},
volume = {2},
pages = {353--387}
}
Please see the attached file 'appersand1.png' for the produced text.
@ARTICLE{france1998ufm,
author = {France, R. and Evans, A. and Lano, K. and Rumpe, B.},
title = {{The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation}},
journal = {{Computer Standards \& Interfaces}},
year = {1998},
volume = {19},
pages = {325--334},
number = {7},
publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands}
}
Please see the attached file 'appersand2.png' for the produced text.

However, for some other ampersand in the same bib file, it worked well. I do not know why? Would you please give me some hint? Thanks.
Michael.

[phi]

That's an ampersand in the italic version of the Computer Modern font. It's unrelated to BibTeX; you get the same symbol with \textit{\&}. Italic fonts stem from cursive (hand-written) scripts, and the ampersand is a cursive ligature of the word "et." Computer Modern Italic merely displays this etymology.

[daleif]

Some typographers actually recommend using the italic & in titles and such because the italic & is often better designed than the roman counterpart.