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

[Adam C. <ad...@ch...>]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:02:59 -0400 David Goodger
<go...@us...> wrote:

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

It is quite uncommon (although institutions like it sometimes), but it does
happen that this form is used.
 
> 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;

That seems very reasonable. Gets my vote. :)

> 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>").

Great! Thanks!

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Adam Chodorowski <ad...@ch...>

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