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

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

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?
  The query was for 5.0 wasn't it?
regards

On 19 January 2017 at 16:26, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> "Kraetke, Martin, le-tex" <martin.kraetke@le-tex.de> writes:
>> In DocBook 5.0, the element authorinitials can appear as children of
>> biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset but not as children
>> of author or personname.
>
> In retorspect, that does seem…odd.
>
>> <biblioentry xml:id="CR1">
>>   <authorgroup>
>>     <author>
>>       <personname>
>>         <authorinitials>P.</authorinitials>
>>         <surname>Abad</surname>
>>       </personname>
>>     </author>
>
> But so does that. I’d expect the “author initials” of P. Abad to be “PA”
> or something. That’s really just an abbreviated first name.
>
> I wonder if <firstname><abbrev>P.</abbrev></firstname> captures the semantics
> better. Not that I especially like it, but…
>
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