latex-shortmathj

Automatically shortify titles of mathematical journals

This small dummy package just contains a simple list of full and short journal names (AMS standard).

Usage

% In the preamble
\usepackage{shortmathj}

% In the document
\shortifyAMSjournalname{Discrete \& Computational Geometry}
% Result: Discrete Comp. Geom.

In case of any problems

Please, don't hesitate to open an issue at GitLab or to mail me: [e-mail]

Tweaking BibLaTex

BibLaTeX is a great tool that does many things for you. To ask BibLaTeX to abbreviate the journal names, do smth like

\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{titlecase}{\shortifyAMSjournalname{#1}}

Note that shortmathj itself does not require BibLaTeX to be used, unlike other abbreviating packages. shortmathj follows the UNIX-way: it just takes a full title and returns the shortified one.

Tip: for more sophsticated ways, see plk@github/biblatex/#974.

Custom abbreviations

Edit custom.csv and rebuild the package. See also #2.

Be careful!

shortmathj.template.sty from this repo is NOT what you want. You should obtain shortmathj.sty somehow: build it youtself or download from CTAN (see below).

Building

The build process requires NodeJS and NPM.

First of all, you may want to update the basic CSV file from https://mathscinet.ams.org/msnhtml/annser.csv

Make sure that no journals have been excluded (otherwise add them to custom.csv). git is a good tool for investigating that.

Then, run npm install to install all the dependencies. Run node index.js to build shortmathj.sty.

Repostories

• CTAN

• GitLab

License

LPPL - LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c+, DFSG compat.

Authors

• Nikolai Avdeev aka @nickkolok