Re: [Refdb-users] The case against <middlename>

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Marc Herbert wrote:

> 1) I think the best answer is: nothing. The tradition in the BibTeX
> world is:
>   But an author's complete name may be "Donald E. Knuth" or even
>   "J. P. Morgan"; you should type it the way the author would like it 
> to
>   appear, if that's known.

But this is complicated by the fact that presentation of names is style 
specific.  It becomes a huge PITA, actually, because generally Donald 
E. Knuth becomes "Knuth, D. E." in a bib entry, or just "Knuth, D."  
I've actually gone to some length to track down full first names for my 
DB.

Bruce