Enabling dashed option in phys style

Question

I'm new here, sorry for eventual formatting errors :)

I'm currently using this biblatex setting.

 \documentclass{article}
 \usepackage[backend=bibtex,
citestyle=alphabetic,
bibstyle=phys,
natbib=true]{biblatex}

\bibliography{references.bib}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\references.bib}
@article{np30,
title={{China Sea Pilot, Vol. 1}},
author={{United Kingdom Hydrographic Office [UKHO]}},
journal={\textit{Admiralty Sailing Directions 30} 8th ed. (2010)},
}

@article{np31,
title={{China Sea Pilot, Vol. 2}},
author={{United Kingdom Hydrographic Office [UKHO]}},
journal={\textit{Admiralty Sailing Directions 31} 9th ed. (2010)},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography
\nocite{*}

\end{document}

However, this style does not support the dashed option. Any idea how to solve the problem?

Welcome to TeX.SX! Would this be the same problem as Enabling dashed option for biblatex-ieee style — Dai Bowen, Nov 05 '16 at 18:23
Thanks! I read that question! Actually with biblatex-ieee style I do not encounter difficulties in dashing! — Jerack, Nov 05 '16 at 18:26
Ok, if you could try adding a minimal working example with bibliography (MWEB) that clearly illustrates where you would like to have dashing that might be helpful. — Dai Bowen, Nov 05 '16 at 18:32
Printing bibliography in alphabetical style (as the code above suggests), I would like that author to appear only for the first entry, and be dashed for the others! I edited the post for the MWEB! — Jerack, Nov 05 '16 at 18:37
Does Bibliography horizontal line to replace author's name help, I think this asks the same thing but I can't get Joseph Wright's answer to work with your MWE. — Dai Bowen, Nov 05 '16 at 19:04
See also Make biblatex numeric style use line in bibliography entries for same author? which works for the generic numeric style. (I'd venture that the changes needed for your style are minimal.) — moewe, Nov 05 '16 at 19:26
Does citestyle=alphabetic, bibstyle=phys, actually make sense? — moewe, Nov 05 '16 at 19:29
@moewe the [http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/335960/35864] works of course, but then the output is quite far, so at that point I should intervene on the style file. This woul be of course the most elegant solution, but it will require a bit of time! So for the moment I think I will continue looking for something simplier!
I do not remember how I arrived at the combination of citestyle=alphabetic and bicstyle=phys, but actually the output is what I needed, exept for the absence of the dashed option! — Jerack, Nov 06 '16 at 17:04
What do you mean by 'far', do you mean that the dash is quite long? You could leave out the \renewcommand*{\bibnamedash}{\rule{3em}{0.4pt}\hskip 0.16667em plus 0.01em minus 0.002em\relax \addcomma} line. But I suppose Joseph's answer is pretty much the same. — moewe, Nov 06 '16 at 17:08
I mean that I have to change manually separators (period for commas), when the style use italic, etc., since (at least when I process my file) the result looks different! Regarding Joseph's answer, I've encoutered several errors, I'm going through them now! — Jerack, Nov 06 '16 at 18:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '16 at 19:09

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One could add the same code as in the ieee style:

\makeatletter
% Support for dashed author name replacement
\InitializeBibliographyStyle{\global\undef\bbx@lasthash}

\newbibmacro*{bbx:savehash}{\savefield{fullhash}{\bbx@lasthash}}

% Bibliography macros
\renewbibmacro*{author}{%
  \ifboolexpr{
    test \ifuseauthor
    and
    not test {\ifnameundef{author}}
  }
    {%
      \iffieldequals{fullhash}{\bbx@lasthash}
        {\bibnamedash\addcomma\space}
        {\printnames{author}}%
      \usebibmacro{bbx:savehash}%  
      \iffieldundef{authortype}
        {}
        {%
          \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
          \usebibmacro{authorstrg}%
        }%
    }
    {\global\undef\bbx@lasthash}%
}
\makeatother

which will enable dashes.

answered Nov 05 '16 at 19:09

Joseph Wright

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This isn't in the phys style as it's not used by the APS or AIP, and as they are numerical-based styles so removing author names doesn't really make sense. – Joseph Wright Nov 05 '16 at 19:10
I know it does not make sense, but it's what I'm asked for! Anyway the code seems not working to me, several errors occurr, and I managed to solve only some of them – Jerack Nov 08 '16 at 13:06
@Jerack The code I've posted works for me edited into your example after the \usepackage line, with only a typo to fix in your code (\references should be references). If you are seeing other issues, please edit the question to show them. – Joseph Wright Nov 08 '16 at 13:46
I managed to solve the problem! The string conflicted with another personalised command, but I managed to edit! Thank you! :D – Jerack Nov 12 '16 at 19:46

Enabling dashed option in phys style

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