Re: [Docutils-develop] Re: "Authors" bibliographic field (was Re: Transforms...?)

[David G. <go...@us...>]

[David]
>> As currently implemented, the "Authors" field can use either ";" or
>> "," as separators, with ";" checked for first.  So the following would
>> be parsed properly:
>>
>>     :Authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; Kilgore Trout, Esq.

[Adam]
> Ah, in that case it works very well. Hmmm... With Swedish there will
> still be the same problem though, since there would not be different
> singular/plural forms. The above "syntax" for names isn't used in
> Swedish names, but that doesn't mean someone writing his/her name
> like that doesn't write Swedish documents, so it needs to be handled
> there also...

Don't you ever write names in the "Chodorowski, Adam" form in Swedish?

Because of the lack of a distinction between singular/plural "author"
in Swedish, you'll use only "Authors".  We can require a semicolon at
the end of any single author's name which contains a comma::

    :Authors: Chodorowski, Adam;

I've updated the docs, and the transform for the "Authors"
bibliographic field now checks to see if it contains only one
"author".  If so, it uses just that one "author" element
("<author>Chodorowski, Adam</author>" instead of
"<authors><author>Chodorowski, Adam</author></authors>").

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