Whitespace missing in rendered \software{} citations

[adrn]

With AASTeX6.2:

With AASTeX6.1:

Minimum working example here: https://gist.github.com/adrn/8620656f23d1166c6feadb6b3839af31/archive/b61ad6fe13e8b9f7e39c1a715a93a6ad8fd21aa9.zip

(this was also noticed by Erin Ryan)

[erinleeryan]

Yep, I'll confirm this bug!

[augustfly]

I think that the bst file is out of date... using the newest does not produce that negative space.

yours: %% Revision 1.14 2016/10/5 Amy Hendrickson newest: %% Revision 1.16 2017/10/26 Amy Hendrickson

https://journals.aas.org/aastex-package-for-manuscript-preparation/

Of course upgrading to the newest bst file brings you a lot of new 'features' that some people don't like bc they don't want long bibliographies. but who prints things out, anyway?

[adrn]

Ah, interesting. So it's the confluence of new .cls file + old .bst file?

I still occasionally print out a paper - forgive me for I have sinned!

[erinleeryan]

Hmmm, I've still got the same issue with 6.2 cls and the new .bst in Overleaf, but if I start a new project in Overleaf I can't replicate it. Pants.

[augustfly]

the new bst encodes links for all references (if there are linkable identifiers in the bibtex) into the bibitems, but it includes the identifier as inline text rather than anchor text like yahapj. there's a reason for this, but it makes the reference section longer. it's probably not more than an extra tree or two per year...

i fear this is a very strange bug/aberration, so I'll keep this issue open for others who might have other related experiences. we can also look into it if/when we do v6.3.

[adrn]

Thanks @augustfly!