I was trying to write a macro to bold a name. I used:
\newcommand{\authorship}[2]{\textbf{#1 #2}}
then in the text used
\authorship{Dave Bridges}
Unfortunately when run through pdflatex I get an extra space after the name. So for example the line
\authorship{Bridges, D.}, M. E. Fraser and G. B. G. Moorhead. 2005. Cyclic Nucleotide Binding Domains in the Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza satviva Genomes. BMC Bioinformatics 6(1): 6.
adds an extra space between the period after D and the comma. How do I get rid of that extra space?
Best Answer
Although you specify you command
\authorship
to take two arguments, you actually only supply it with one during a call like:As such,
#2
is the following token (a,
in this case), but TeX still prints#1
, followed by a space, followed by#2
(a bold comma). Using a macro like thisor even just
would suffice. Of course, if you intend to highlight (bold) certain parts of a name, then something else needs to be done, like keeping your original definition, but with usage of the form: