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[Bibulus-dev] Re: Many authors
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Palle Jørgensen |
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[Bibulus-dev] Re: Many authors |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Apr 2003 12:39:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/20.7 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Thomas M. Widmann) writes:
> address@hidden (Palle Jørgensen) writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Thomas M. Widmann) writes:
>>
>> > A real example: [...]
>>
>> It seems to med, that one has to specify `nametype="familylast"'
>> awfully many times.
>
> Yes. :-(
>
>> Wouldn't it be an idea to make it possible to set this parameter
>> globally?
>
> No, because this wouldn't make any sense (it's about the type of the
> name, not how names should be displayed). But perhaps it would be
> better to leave it out unless it is "familyfirst". Actually, I don't
> know whether it's really needed for anything but Chinese names --
> people from most other places where family names normally come first
> change the order when publishing in English. For instance, a
> Hungarian called Adorján István in Hungarian would expect to become
> "Adorján, István" or "I. Adorján" in an English, just as a Japanese
> called "Mitsubishi Yukiko" would normally become "Mitsubishi, Yukiko"
> or "Y. Mitsubishi"; but a Chinese called "Deng Xiaopeng" should stay
> that way, so the nametype should be set to "familyfirst".
>
> I must admit the current system is somewhat simplistic, and it ought
> to be analysed further.
>
> /Thomas
You're right. I talked with Arne about it. I've seen that it only a
issue of making a proper emacs-mode for the bibulus system.
/palle
--
Palle Jørgensen, Stud.scient., BSc
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