Highlight a specific author name in bibliography using babelbib

Question

I want to highlight (more precisely make bold) a specific author name in bibliography using bibtex. There are several answers to this question, like this, this, this, this or this one. However, I'm using the babelbib package, and the previous solutions hack the plain style. I think that the solution that is closer to what I try to do is this one, however I'm not familiar with the language used to write bst files, in order to properly modify it.

For other reasons I have patched the babunsrt-lf style to show only the author initials and I the author name I want to highlight has the form Lastname, {\relax Th}eo

The patched version of FUNCTION {format.names} is taken from here.

Edit: Adding a MWE after @uT5r asked

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@CONFERENCE{CB:EPS36,
author      = {\textbf{Lastname, {\relax Th}eo} and Coauthor, John},
title       = {Some poster},
booktitle   = {36 Conference},
address     = {City},
year        = {2009},
pages       = {1015-1018},
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[francais,greek,english]{babel}
\usepackage{babelbib}
\selectbiblanguage{english}
\setbtxfallbacklanguage{english}
\begin{document}
bla
\bibliographystyle{bababbrv-lf}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\nocite{*}
\end{document}

Answer 1

This is quite the manual, and simply, solution, but would it be possible simply to manually open your .bib file and do a find and replace?

Say you want to make ``Bleeker, Marjo'' bold. You simply open your .bib file, search for Bleeker, Marjo, replace it with \textbf{Bleeker, Marjo}, and compile your .tex.

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{janssen1996evaluation,
  title={Evaluation of the DNA fingerprinting method AFLP as a new tool in bacterial taxonomy},
  author={Janssen, Paul and Coopman, Renata and Huys, Geert and Swings, Jean and \textbf{Bleeker, Marjo} and Vos, Pieter and Zabeau, Marc and Kersters, Karel},
  journal={Microbiology},
  volume={142},
  number={7},
  pages={1881--1893},
  year={1996},
  publisher={Soc General Microbiol}
}
@article{vos1995aflp,
  title={AFLP: a new technique for DNA fingerprinting},
  author={Vos, Pieter and Hogers, Rene and \textbf{Bleeker, Marjo} and Reijans, Martin and Van de Lee, Theo and Hornes, Miranda and Friters, Adrie and Pot, Jerina and Paleman, Johan and Kuiper, Martin and others},
  journal={Nucleic acids research},
  volume={23},
  number={21},
  pages={4407--4414},
  year={1995},
  publisher={Oxford Univ Press}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear, maxcitenames=2, maxbibnames=100, natbib=true, backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

\noindent 
\citet[1229]{vos1995aflp} has argued that $y$. Second, \citep[1229]{janssen1996evaluation} also show $m$ and $x$ \citet{vos1995aflp,janssen1996evaluation}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Answer 2

Since you can use the highlight command in *.bib source file. However I was able to highlight specific parts of the citation by adding \hl{} command to every single line of the citation information:

@article{StephenPark,
  title={\hl{Integration of biological kinetics and computational fluid dynamics to model the growth of Nannochloropsis salina in an open channel raceway}},
  author={\hl{Park, Stephen and Li, Yebo}},
  journal={\hl{Biotechnology and bioengineering}},
  volume={\hl{112}},
  number={\hl{5}},
  pages={\hl{923--933}},
  year={\hl{2015}},
  publisher={\hl{Wiley Online Library}}
}

which gives the following result:

you can remove the \hl{} command from any of the citation parts.

Answer 3

I'm often trying to do the same thing and what's just occurred to me is that as I have a separate .bib file for my publications and one for general references, I could define a command like \authoremph that does the kind of highlighting whatever powers-that-be want, e.g., with \textbf or \underline, and make sure every time my name appears, have it as \authoremph{me} in my .bib file.

If \authoremph isn't defined, then use \newcommand\authoremph[1]{#1} in the document preamble or \newcommand\authoremph[1]{\textbf{#1}} if I'm, e.g., writing a grant...

Testing it out - works beautifully! (Ok I know, I have to now have an extra line in my preamble in everything, but I use Sublime Text 3 and I can just put it in my "paper" template.