Letter case and accents in bibliographies

Standard BibTeX styles conform to a scheme for managing the letter case in various parts of citations (notably titles). This can be extremely tiresome: you may find "Einstein" appearing as "einstein", "CO" (for Carbon Monoxide) as "co"; sometimes these changes can entirely alter the sense of a title, but mostly they're merely tiresomely bad typesetting.

Fortunately, BibTeX's language provides a "leave it alone, please" syntax: enclose the stuff to be 'ignored' in braces. So you might change:

  TITLE = "On Einstein's theory of CO control",
\begin{pdfversion}
  TITLE = "On Einstein's theory of CO control",
\end{pdfversion} \begin{dviversion}
  TITLE = "On Einstein's theory
           of CO control",
\end{dviversion} to: TITLE = "{On Einstein's theory of CO control}", \begin{pdfversion} TITLE = "{On Einstein's theory of CO control}", \end{pdfversion} \begin{dviversion}
  TITLE = "On {E}instein's theory
           of {CO} control",
\end{dviversion} or even: TITLE = "{On Einstein's theory of CO control}", \begin{pdfversion} TITLE = "{On Einstein's theory of CO control}", \end{pdfversion} \begin{dviversion}
  TITLE = "{On Einstein's theory
            of CO control}",
\end{dviversion} Which last says "I know what I'm doing, you needn't bother with it, BibTeX"; it's a useful form if there are lots of names or chemical formulae, or whatever in a title.

BibTeX also makes a hash of accents: "ma\ nana" comes out as "ma nana" (!). The solution is similar: enclose the troublesome sequence in braces, as "{\ n}".

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