How to make a name bold in a bibliography?

Question

I'm tring to update my CV by using a .bib instead of writing everything. For that, everything's fine. But, I'd also like to highlight my name in every entry in the bibliography. I am using plainrevyr.bst and already tried This and That

Basically, following those two posts, I've added these functions to my .bst

FUNCTION {cv.author}
{ "Doe, John" }


FUNCTION {highlight}
{ duplicate$ empty$
      { pop$ "" }
      { "\textbf{\textsc{" swap$ * "}}" * }
   if$
}


FUNCTION {highlight.cv.author}
{ duplicate$ purify$ cv.author purify$ =
    { highlight }
    'skip$
  if$
}

I've also added highlight.cv.author in the function format.names after format.name$ as required As I understand from the other examples I've found, my major issue comes from the function cv.author.

So, if I use :

FUNCTION {cv.author}
{ "Doe, John" } 

Nothing happens (I've also tried "John Doe" as it is how a name appear in the biblio)

If I try instead :

FUNCTION {cv.author}
{ "Doe, John" nameptr  "{ff~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}"  format.name$ }

I got a error saying that John Doe is a string literal, not an integer. I agree with this error as nameptr is defined as an integer.

Here is format.names :

INTEGERS { nameptr namesleft numnames }
FUNCTION {format.names}
{ 's :=
  #1 'nameptr :=
  s num.names$ 'numnames :=
  numnames 'namesleft :=
    { namesleft #0 > }
    { s nameptr "{ff~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}" 
    format.name$ 
    highlight.cv.author 't :=
      nameptr #1 >
        { namesleft #1 >
            { ", " * t * }
            { numnames #2 >
                { "," * }
                'skip$
              if$
              t "others" =
                { " et~al." * }
                { " and " * t * }
              if$
            }
          if$
        }
        't
      if$
      nameptr #1 + 'nameptr :=
      namesleft #1 - 'namesleft :=
    }
  while$
}

How to make it work ?

Thank you !

---

EDIT

Here is how I call my biblio :

\documentclass{cv2}

\usepackage[francais]{babel} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}       %% Pour la césure des mots accentués
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  %% les accents dans le fichier.tex
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage[backref]{hyperref} 

\begin{document}

\bibliographystyle{plainrevyr}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{MyPapers}

\end{document}

And 2 Bibentries :

@article{Doe2014,
    title = {{First title}},
    year = {2014},
    journal = {Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.},
    author = {Name1, Forename1 and Doe, John and Name2, Forename2 and Name3, Forename3},
    number = {40},
    pages = {22903--22912},
    volume = {16},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/C4CP03276D http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C4CP03276D},
    doi = {10.1038/C4CP03276D},
    issn = {1462-9076}
}

@article{Doe2012,
    title = {{MyTitle2}},
    year = {2012},
    journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry C},
    author = {Doe, John and Name4, Forename4 and Name2, Forename2 and Name5, Forename5 and Name1, Forename1},
    number = {25},
    pages = {13716--13724},
    volume = {110},
    isbn = {1932-7447},
    doi = {10.1021/jp304525f},
    issn = {19327457}
}

And Here the links to cv2 and plainrevyr

Answer 1

The name has to be specified in the right format. When I use

FUNCTION {cv.author}
{ "John Doe" }

it actually works fine, but it is more reliable to use format.name$: Replace the function cv.author by

FUNCTION {cv.author}
{ "Doe, John" #1 "{ff~}{vv~}{ll}{, jj}"  format.name$ }

The difference to your attempt is the #1 instead of nameptr. This parameter defines which name to use, if multiple names (separated with and) appear in the first parameter. "Doe, John" only contains one name, so every other parameter then #1 will lead to an error. Your specific error was caused because cv.author was called while nameptr had no value assigned at all.