Nerlim: a Master Bibliography Style that Allows Books to have both Authors and Editors

If you’re using BibTeX and LaTeX and are doing any kind of scholarly/humanistic work, I’m sure you’ve run into this annoying problem: BibTeX always complains when a book has both an author and an editor. That’s a problem when, say, you want to include

Gödel, K., 1986. Collected Works, vol. I. S. Feferman et al., eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

There is a wonderful package that allows you to generate new BibTeX bibliography styles based on a large number of customization options: custom-bib.  It comes with one big master bibliography style merlin.mbs from which your custom style is generated. I’ve produced a modified file which will also print both author and editor for a book that has both. 

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