Re: [Refdb-users] citestyle's BIBLIOSEQUENCE sorts upper and lower alpha separately

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Quoting Jeremy Malcolm <Je...@Ma...>:

> Another problem is that if no primary author is specified but a
> secondary author is specified (generally because you are citing a book
> that has editor/s rather than author/s), it lists all of those
> references at the start of the bibliography, before the letter A.  The
> preferred behaviour would obviously be to interleave them with the other
> references.
>

This is probably due to my (or your?) misunderstanding of how a book =20
should be encoded in RIS. I've assumed that the names printed on the =20
cover go into A1. Compare with book chapter: The author of the chapter =20
goes into A1, the book title into T1, and the book editors into A2. =20
Now if the book title goes into T1 in a whole book reference, I =20
assumed it to be straightforward to have the names in A1, regardless =20
of whether they act as authors or editors. You apparently prefer to =20
put authors into A1 and editors into A2. This is the usual mess caused =20
by RIS mixing up the orthogonal concepts of bibliographic levels and a =20
person's responsibility.

I'm sure that a more sane data format will allow to avoid this in the =20
future, but for the time being I'll try to have RefDB check for =20
missing primary authors and use secondary ones whenever this makes =20
sense.

regards,
Markus



--=20
Markus Hoenicka
mar...@ca...
(Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka")
http://www.mhoenicka.de