Is the definition of 'authorInitials' inclusive?
JDR (full, inclusive)
John D Rockafella (middle/additional)
They are / could be used in many ways.
Though not in http://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.0/personname.html?
The query was for 5.0 wasn't it?
regards
On 19 January 2017 at 16:26, Norman Walsh <> wrote:
> "Kraetke, Martin, le-tex" <> writes:
>> In DocBook 5.0, the element authorinitials can appear as children of
>> biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset but not as children
>> of author or personname.
>
> In retorspect, that does seem…odd.
>
>> <biblioentry xml:id="CR1">
>> <authorgroup>
>> <author>
>> <personname>
>> <authorinitials>P.</authorinitials>
>> <surname>Abad</surname>
>> </personname>
>> </author>
>
> But so does that. I’d expect the “author initials” of P. Abad to be “PA”
> or something. That’s really just an abbreviated first name.
>
> I wonder if <firstname><abbrev>P.</abbrev></firstname> captures the semantics
> better. Not that I especially like it, but…
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
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