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A while back I asked this question:

Make specific author bold using biblatex

Essentially, I want to highlight my name in the publications portion of my CV. I got a good answer from my previous question which included this line:

\ExecuteBibliographyOptions{maxnames=99,firstinits}

which converts all the author names to first initials plus a last name.

There was one caveat that is now coming to bite me:

If your name is consistently formatted in the bib file...

My name is not consistently formatted in the bib file. Sometimes it is Jeremy Lloyd Conlin other times it is J. L. Conlin and still J. Conlin.

I want to bold all of my names while keeping the original name, i.e., I don't want the author names reduced to first initials and last names. Is this possible?

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  • Interesting. I don't include my name in my list of publications at all in my CV. (For this reason, I don't use biblatex as I can't format the entries correctly for a CV.) Why do you want names formatted inconsistently in any list of references? – cfr Feb 13 '14 at 02:40
  • @cfr I prefer to use my full name whenever possible so I don't like it when biblatex changes everything to initials. Unfortunately that means my name is used inconsistently depending on the preference of the first author. – jlconlin Feb 13 '14 at 03:34
  • Then don’t biblatex do that and keep your .bib verbose as well. – Crissov Feb 13 '14 at 07:19
  • The caveat applies to only the second approach given. To solve your problem see the first approach or use biber's source map feature to normalize your name. – Audrey Feb 14 '14 at 03:16
  • @Audrey That caveat appears to apply only to the second approach. However, I was (am) using the first approach and still only get first initials. – jlconlin Feb 19 '14 at 12:54
  • @Jeremy Then don't enable firstinits. It is enabled in the examples just for demonstration. – Audrey Feb 19 '14 at 16:58
  • @Audrey I tried that, but then my name isn't highlighted. – jlconlin Feb 19 '14 at 17:40
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    @Jeremy firstinits doesn't change the data, just how it is displayed. In the \boldnames list you must specify all the ways your last and first names appear in the bbl file. Under biber this could be \boldnames{{Conlin, Jeremy\bibnamedelima Lloyd}, {Conlin, J.\bibnamedelimi L.}, {Conlin, J.}}, but you'll have to check the bbl file. All of this was covered in the original post. I don't think your issue warrants a new question, but feel free to post an answer. – Audrey Feb 19 '14 at 22:35
  • @Audrey I tried doing that, but couldn't get any of my names to be highlighted. Of course there are any number of combinations that are possible; I may not have found all of them. – jlconlin Feb 20 '14 at 14:56
  • @Jeremy Sorry - I had a typo. Should be \forcsvlist{\listadd\boldnames}{...} following the first example. Each item in the name list should be in the format {<last name>, <first name>}, where <first name> should be the full name only. – Audrey Feb 21 '14 at 04:04
  • @Audrey I was able to get all my names highlighted. I looked in the bbl file as you suggested and found the possible combinations. It took me awhile to figure out what they need to be, but I got it done. Thanks for your help. Now how can I choose an answer to this question? – jlconlin Feb 22 '14 at 05:18
  • @Audrey could you help me out with http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/187994/multiple-names-bold-in-bibliography I'm using your example, but some of my names only have last name. – jlanza Jul 04 '14 at 13:47

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