Hi,
On Montag, 10. Dezember 2007, Geraint North wrote:
> Out of interest, what do people use the firstname/surname/lastname/
> givenname distinction for? In Docbook, its main use is clearly to
> identify document authors visually on the page. The only other
> application I could see is if you wanted to produce a sorted list of
> authors, but quite why you'd want to do that, I'm unsure.
Some books have a sorted list of authors at the end. It's some kind of an
index. For this purpose you have to sort it somehow. :)
Bye,
Tom
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Thomas Schraitle
