Re: Many authors

Halloechen!

[email protected] (Thomas M. Widmann) writes:

> [email protected] (Palle Jørgensen) writes:
>
>> "Torsten Bronger" <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > Arne Jørgensen <[email protected]> writes:
>> >
>> >> [...]
>> >>
>> >> Another issue with authors.
>> >>
>> >> Should it be (is it already?) possible to define an author outside the
>> >> book/article/whatever and then crossref it?
>> >>
>> >> If the same author appears in more than one publication it will
>> >> probably be convenient to define him/her only once.
>
> I've actually been thinking about the same.  [...]
>
>> > This is not a good idea in my opinion.  It makes the file hard to
>> > read, it is very uncommon, and you don't win much.
>
> Depends.  It's certainly not worth it just to avoid a nametype every
> now and then, but what with authors publishing under many different
> names, it could be nice to have a way of building an author database.

I don't think that a significantly large number of users may want to
do that, and even those people can do that separately.

I like the idea of context independent entries.  If I extract a part
of my bibliography for a friend, I needn't pick all necessary
authors, too.

As far as language dependent names are concerned: If you refer to
something, you must give the original data.  So even if you cite the
TeXbook in a Chinese journal, you must write Knuth with Latin
letters.  The script is part of the bibliography entry and therefore
I see no need for this sort of "language switchboard" that you
propose.

>> >  And, you can use entities for it.
>
> How much can you put into an entity?

A whole XML document.  But no tag must be left open.

Tschoe,
Torsten.