Add space between authors with multiple middle initials with biblatex

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I'm using the IEEE style with biblatex. I have an article with an author with multiple middle initials. Unfortunately, the spacing between the middle initials are lost:



J. R.R. A. Martins etc.



Here is a minimal example.



documentclassarticle
usepackage[style=ieee,backend=bibtex]biblatex
beginfilecontents*test.bib
@ArticleMartins2003,
 author = Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Sturdza, Peter and Alonso, Juan J.,
 title = The complex-step derivative approximation,
 journal = ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
 year = 2003,
 volume = 29,
 number = 3,
 pages = 245--262

endfilecontents*
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelimaddnbthinspace
addbibresourcetest.bib
begindocument
nocite*
printbibliography
enddocument





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    Interesting. It doesn't happen with biber. Perhaps it's a bug. Can you switch away from bibtex?
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I'm using the IEEE style with biblatex. I have an article with an author with multiple middle initials. Unfortunately, the spacing between the middle initials are lost:



J. R.R. A. Martins etc.



Here is a minimal example.



documentclassarticle
usepackage[style=ieee,backend=bibtex]biblatex
beginfilecontents*test.bib
@ArticleMartins2003,
 author = Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Sturdza, Peter and Alonso, Juan J.,
 title = The complex-step derivative approximation,
 journal = ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
 year = 2003,
 volume = 29,
 number = 3,
 pages = 245--262

endfilecontents*
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelimaddnbthinspace
addbibresourcetest.bib
begindocument
nocite*
printbibliography
enddocument





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    Interesting. It doesn't happen with biber. Perhaps it's a bug. Can you switch away from bibtex?
    – David Purton
    1 hour ago












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I'm using the IEEE style with biblatex. I have an article with an author with multiple middle initials. Unfortunately, the spacing between the middle initials are lost:



J. R.R. A. Martins etc.



Here is a minimal example.



documentclassarticle
usepackage[style=ieee,backend=bibtex]biblatex
beginfilecontents*test.bib
@ArticleMartins2003,
 author = Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Sturdza, Peter and Alonso, Juan J.,
 title = The complex-step derivative approximation,
 journal = ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
 year = 2003,
 volume = 29,
 number = 3,
 pages = 245--262

endfilecontents*
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelimaddnbthinspace
addbibresourcetest.bib
begindocument
nocite*
printbibliography
enddocument





biblatex







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I'm using the IEEE style with biblatex. I have an article with an author with multiple middle initials. Unfortunately, the spacing between the middle initials are lost:



J. R.R. A. Martins etc.



Here is a minimal example.



documentclassarticle
usepackage[style=ieee,backend=bibtex]biblatex
beginfilecontents*test.bib
@ArticleMartins2003,
 author = Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Sturdza, Peter and Alonso, Juan J.,
 title = The complex-step derivative approximation,
 journal = ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
 year = 2003,
 volume = 29,
 number = 3,
 pages = 245--262

endfilecontents*
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelimaddnbthinspace
addbibresourcetest.bib
begindocument
nocite*
printbibliography
enddocument





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    Interesting. It doesn't happen with biber. Perhaps it's a bug. Can you switch away from bibtex?
    – David Purton
    1 hour ago












  • 1




    Interesting. It doesn't happen with biber. Perhaps it's a bug. Can you switch away from bibtex?
    – David Purton
    1 hour ago







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Interesting. It doesn't happen with biber. Perhaps it's a bug. Can you switch away from bibtex?
– David Purton
1 hour ago




Interesting. It doesn't happen with biber. Perhaps it's a bug. Can you switch away from bibtex?
– David Purton
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You should be able to control the space between all name initials with bibinitdelim, but as your MWE shows this does not always work.



When compiled with BibTeX the .bbl file contains 



giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiod
 Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod,


which means that for some reason BibTeX does not add a bibinitdelim between the two Rs.



If I compile your example with Biber, I get



giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod


and consequently bibinitdelim works as expected.



So this seems to be an issue with BibTeX, I have opened an issue about this at the biblatex bugtracker: https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/806



For now I can only advise to use Biber



documentclassarticle
usepackage[style=ieee,backend=biber]biblatex
beginfilecontents*jobname.bib
@ArticleMartins2003,
 author = Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Sturdza, Peter and Alonso, Juan J.,
 title = The complex-step derivative approximation,
 journal = ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
 year = 2003,
 volume = 29,
 number = 3,
 pages = 245--262

endfilecontents*
renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelimaddnbthinspace
addbibresourcejobname.bib
begindocument
nocite*
printbibliography
enddocument


"J. R. R. A. Martins, P. Sturdza, and J. J. Alonso, “The complex-step derivative approximation,” ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 245–262, 2003." with thin spaces between all initials






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    You should be able to control the space between all name initials with bibinitdelim, but as your MWE shows this does not always work.



    When compiled with BibTeX the .bbl file contains 



    giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiod
     Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod,


    which means that for some reason BibTeX does not add a bibinitdelim between the two Rs.



    If I compile your example with Biber, I get



    giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod


    and consequently bibinitdelim works as expected.



    So this seems to be an issue with BibTeX, I have opened an issue about this at the biblatex bugtracker: https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/806



    For now I can only advise to use Biber



    documentclassarticle
    usepackage[style=ieee,backend=biber]biblatex
    beginfilecontents*jobname.bib
    @ArticleMartins2003,
     author = Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Sturdza, Peter and Alonso, Juan J.,
     title = The complex-step derivative approximation,
     journal = ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
     year = 2003,
     volume = 29,
     number = 3,
     pages = 245--262

    endfilecontents*
    renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelimaddnbthinspace
    addbibresourcejobname.bib
    begindocument
    nocite*
    printbibliography
    enddocument


    "J. R. R. A. Martins, P. Sturdza, and J. J. Alonso, “The complex-step derivative approximation,” ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 245–262, 2003." with thin spaces between all initials






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      You should be able to control the space between all name initials with bibinitdelim, but as your MWE shows this does not always work.



      When compiled with BibTeX the .bbl file contains 



      giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiod
       Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod,


      which means that for some reason BibTeX does not add a bibinitdelim between the two Rs.



      If I compile your example with Biber, I get



      giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod


      and consequently bibinitdelim works as expected.



      So this seems to be an issue with BibTeX, I have opened an issue about this at the biblatex bugtracker: https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/806



      For now I can only advise to use Biber



      documentclassarticle
      usepackage[style=ieee,backend=biber]biblatex
      beginfilecontents*jobname.bib
      @ArticleMartins2003,
       author = Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Sturdza, Peter and Alonso, Juan J.,
       title = The complex-step derivative approximation,
       journal = ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
       year = 2003,
       volume = 29,
       number = 3,
       pages = 245--262

      endfilecontents*
      renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelimaddnbthinspace
      addbibresourcejobname.bib
      begindocument
      nocite*
      printbibliography
      enddocument


      "J. R. R. A. Martins, P. Sturdza, and J. J. Alonso, “The complex-step derivative approximation,” ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 245–262, 2003." with thin spaces between all initials






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        You should be able to control the space between all name initials with bibinitdelim, but as your MWE shows this does not always work.



        When compiled with BibTeX the .bbl file contains 



        giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiod
         Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod,


        which means that for some reason BibTeX does not add a bibinitdelim between the two Rs.



        If I compile your example with Biber, I get



        giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod


        and consequently bibinitdelim works as expected.



        So this seems to be an issue with BibTeX, I have opened an issue about this at the biblatex bugtracker: https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/806



        For now I can only advise to use Biber



        documentclassarticle
        usepackage[style=ieee,backend=biber]biblatex
        beginfilecontents*jobname.bib
        @ArticleMartins2003,
         author = Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Sturdza, Peter and Alonso, Juan J.,
         title = The complex-step derivative approximation,
         journal = ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
         year = 2003,
         volume = 29,
         number = 3,
         pages = 245--262

        endfilecontents*
        renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelimaddnbthinspace
        addbibresourcejobname.bib
        begindocument
        nocite*
        printbibliography
        enddocument


        "J. R. R. A. Martins, P. Sturdza, and J. J. Alonso, “The complex-step derivative approximation,” ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 245–262, 2003." with thin spaces between all initials






        share|improve this answer












        You should be able to control the space between all name initials with bibinitdelim, but as your MWE shows this does not always work.



        When compiled with BibTeX the .bbl file contains 



        giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiod
         Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod,


        which means that for some reason BibTeX does not add a bibinitdelim between the two Rs.



        If I compile your example with Biber, I get



        giveni=Jbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Rbibinitperiodbibinitdelim Abibinitperiod


        and consequently bibinitdelim works as expected.



        So this seems to be an issue with BibTeX, I have opened an issue about this at the biblatex bugtracker: https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/806



        For now I can only advise to use Biber



        documentclassarticle
        usepackage[style=ieee,backend=biber]biblatex
        beginfilecontents*jobname.bib
        @ArticleMartins2003,
         author = Martins, Joaquim R. R. A. and Sturdza, Peter and Alonso, Juan J.,
         title = The complex-step derivative approximation,
         journal = ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
         year = 2003,
         volume = 29,
         number = 3,
         pages = 245--262

        endfilecontents*
        renewrobustcmd*bibinitdelimaddnbthinspace
        addbibresourcejobname.bib
        begindocument
        nocite*
        printbibliography
        enddocument


        "J. R. R. A. Martins, P. Sturdza, and J. J. Alonso, “The complex-step derivative approximation,” ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 245–262, 2003." with thin spaces between all initials







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