I had a BibTeX entry that contained an ‘n’ with a tilde ~{n} in one of the author’s names. This was typeset as a non-breaking space by LaTeX because ~ represents a non-breaking space. I have no idea why author’s names in the bibliography are treated like this, however, when ~{n} produces the correct character in other BibTeX fields.

The solution to this problem is to put the old curly brackets around the offending sequence: {~{n}}.

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last modified: 20th Feb 2012