Re: [docbook-apps] Format bibliography with FOP

[Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, William Sporrong wrote:

> I'm having some problems with my bibliography. I've started to make 
> a customization layer to format it according to the ACM standard. 
> But there are a few things I can't figure out how to do:
>
> 1) Change the way author names are displayed. I want to display them 
>    like: surname, initials. (Klemmer, R.S., Thomsen, M)  In the 
>    bibliography I have typed in complete authronames with firstname, 
>    othername and surname but I only want the first letter of the 
>    firstname and othername (initials).

If you want to specify that it the xml source, then try

   <author role="last-first"> ... </author>

If you want to specify it in the stylesheet, take a look at the 
person.name template in common/common.xsl.


-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>