[Tex/LaTex] Special characters ř and í in BibTeX

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How do I type the characters ř and í in BibTeX? Some names of people contain them. I've used Detexifier, and it doesn't help much.

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In your .bib file, you can use \v{r} for ř and \'{i} for í. Here's a very basic, schematic example:

@article{example,
Author = {Example, Autho\v{r}},
Title = {Example T\'{i}tle},
et cetera...
}

Here's a link to the LaTeX WikiBook that shows you how to write these and other such characters in LaTeX.

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If you're using the plain bibliography style, you could proceed as follows to get BibTeX to replace the " and " connector between the penultimate and ultimate author names with a simple comma:

Make a copy of the file plain.bst and name it, say, myplain.bst. Do not directly edit/modify an existing file that comes with a TeX distribution.
Open the file myplain.bst in your favorite text editor and search for the function format.names. (It starts on l. 185 in my system's copy of plain.bst.) In the code of this function, look for the following lines (likely lines 195-201):
```
    { numnames #2 >
        { "," * }
        'skip$
      if$
      t "others" =
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        { " and " * t * }
```
Modify the first and last of these lines so that the lines of code look like this:
```
    { numnames #1 >
        { "," * }
        'skip$
      if$
      t "others" =
        { " et~al." * }
        { " " * t * }
```
I.e., change #2 to #1 on the first line, and " and " to " " on the last line of this group. It's necessary to make both modifications to get the proper treatment regardless of the number of authors -- as long as the number is greater than 1, of course.
Save the file, update your TeX distribution's filename database as needed, and start invoking the new bibliography style with the command \bibliographystyle{myplain}.

Happy BibTeXing!

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