Re: [docbook] Re: author initials in bibliography entries

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex" <gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de>]

On 19.01.2017 17:56, Dave Pawson wrote:
> Is the definition of 'authorInitials' inclusive?
> JDR (full, inclusive)
> John D Rockafella (middle/additional)
>
>
> They are / could be used in many ways.
> Though not in http://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.0/personname.html?

As the comment on http://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.1/authorinitials.html 
suggests, it might have been designed to hold the (full) initials of 
someone who adds a comment or changes a document. I don’t think it was 
originally intended for marking up author names in bibliographic entries.

Gerrit