[Tex/LaTex] Hyphenation in bibliography with Biblatex

biblatexhyphenation

The hyphenation in my bibliography is off somehow, I can't figure out why. Look:

\documentclass{scrreprt}  
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,hyperref=true]{biblatex} 
\bibliography{\jobname.bib} 
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{Fowler:2006,
    Address = {Boston},
    Author = {Fowler, Martin},
    Publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
    Title = {Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture},
    Year = {2006}}

@book{Rotem-Gal-Oz:2012,
    Address = {Shelter Island, NY},
    Author = {{Rotem-Gal-Oz}, Arnon},
    Publisher = {Manning Publications Co.},
    Title = {SOA Patterns},
    Year = {2012}}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}
\nocite{Fowler:2006} \nocite{Rotem-Gal-Oz:2012}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Now, when you compile that you can see that the "Addison-" of "Addison-Wesley" is too long. (I put in another Bib-Entry for your reference).
Addison is to long.

I could fix this with Add\-ison but that's just weird. Also, I have more than one occurrence in my file and I dislike having to check for this error again and again.

So, what do I do now?

Best Answer

When dealing with material that's difficult to hyphenate, it can help at times -- but it's not guaranteed to work under all circumstances -- to provide the directive \sloppy. The \sloppy instruction lets TeX find line breaks by widening the amount of inter-word whitespace far more than is (normally) considered to be tolerable. However, do be sure to exhaust other possibilities before resorting to using \sloppy -- the results you may get with this method may look, well, sloppy!

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biblatex has a number of counters which when set to non-zero positive values less than 10000 allow breaks in urls in the bibliography. The specific counters are

biburlnumpenalty
biburlucpenalty
biburllcpenalty

for breaks after numbers, uppercase letters and lowercase letters, respectively. In your case it suffices to set the lowercase penalty to 9000; lower values encourage breaks more (or rather discourage them less). The setting is done value via \setcounter:

Sample output

\documentclass[12pt,english,a4paper]{article}%
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,defernumbers=true,sorting=nty]{biblatex}%
\usepackage[breaklinks,plainpages=false]{hyperref}%
\def\UrlBreaks{\do\/\do\a\do\b\do\c\do\d\do\e\do\f\do\g\do\h\do\i\do\j\do\k\do\l\do\m\do\n\do\o\do\p\do\q\do\r\do\s\do\t\do\u\do\v\do\w\do\x\do\y\do\z\do\A\do\B\do\C\do\D\do\E\do\F\do\G\do\H\do\I\do\J\do\K\do\L\do\M\do\N\do\O\do\P\do\Q\do\R\do\S\do\T\do\U\do\V\do\W\do\X\do\Y\do\Z\do0\do1\do2\do3\do4\do5\do6\do7\do8\do9\do=\do/\do.\do:}
\setcounter{biburllcpenalty}{9000}
\addbibresource{Biblio.bib}
\begin{document}
See \cite{citation} for further details or visit \url{http://www.joifewoirjecpwoirjcpewrijcpenwrjcpnewrjicpnwerjincpejricpejripcne.com}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

When choosing values for these penalties it is useful to note that biblatex's defaults are

\UrlBigBreakPenalty   100

for breaks after : and -, and

\UrlBreakPenalty      200

for breaks after most punctuation characters. You want to set the other penalties significantly higher, so that breaks after numbers and letters are of a lower prioriy than those after punctuation marks. If you need to change the two \Url...BreakPenaltys above then it is via the unusual syntax of

\mathchardef\UrlBreakPenalty=200\relax

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First thing to do is to add a field for the journal abbreviation to the article entrytype, journalabbr in the MWE. Therefore you need to declare a datamodel (an extra file; in the MWE I've used filecontents to simulate that) and you have to tell biblatex/biber to use it in the package options.

Then you have to modify the cite command, so it fits your needs. \citep from the authoryear-style (your citestyle) uses the \cite command. There you just have to add a switch, which checks if the field journalabbr is empty or not, and prints it out or not.

Last but not least you have to add the abbreviation fields to the entries.

MWE:

\begin{filecontents}{min.bib}
@article{boisson2003unexpected,
  title={Unexpected protein families including cell defense components feature in the N-myristoylome of a higher eukaryote},
  author={Boisson, B. and Giglione, Carmela and Meinnel, Thierry},
  journal={Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  journalabbr={JBC},
  year={2003},
  publisher={ASBMB}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\ProvidesFile{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=literal]{journalabbr}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields[article]{journalabbr}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[fontsize=11pt, paper=a4, ngerman, DIV=calc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,isbn=false,natbib=true, citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=authoryear,backend=biber,maxnames=1,maxcitenames=1,
,datamodel=authorjabbryear%added!
] {biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{ andothers = {{et\,al\adddot}} }

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%from authoryear.cbx
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}
       {\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \iffieldundef{journalabbr}{}{%
        \printfield{journalabbr}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}%
        }%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\addbibresource{min.bib}

\begin{document}

\citep{boisson2003unexpected} 

How it should look like: 

(Boisson et al., JBC, 2003)

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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