Names in {BibTeX} and {mlBibTeX}

International audienceWithin the bibliographical entries managed by BibTeX, the bibliography processor usually associated with LaTeX, person and organisation names are specified with a rough syntax, whose details are not very well known. Likewise, the features related to formatting names within bibliography styles are often viewed as obscure. We explain these points in detail, giving some cases difficult or impossible to handle with BibTeX. Then we show how these problems can be solved within MlBibTeX, our reimplementation of BibTeX focusing on multilingual features and using an extension of xslt as the language for bibliography styles