[Bibulus-dev] Re: Many authors

[Palle Jørgensen]

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

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