Re: [docbook] On family/given/first/last names

[Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de>]

Hi,

On Montag, 10. Dezember 2007, Geraint North wrote:
> Out of interest, what do people use the firstname/surname/lastname/
> givenname distinction for?  In Docbook, its main use is clearly to
> identify document authors visually on the page.  The only other
> application I could see is if you wanted to produce a sorted list of
> authors, but quite why you'd want to do that, I'm unsure.

Some books have a sorted list of authors at the end. It's some kind of an 
index. For this purpose you have to sort it somehow. :)


Bye,
Tom

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Thomas Schraitle