Re: Re: author initials in bibliography entries

yes, it's odd. The XML input uses a "Initials" element but I think your 
suggestion is more accurate.

Thank you!

Martin

Am 19.01.2017 um 17:26 schrieb Norman Walsh:
> "Kraetke, Martin, le-tex" <[email protected]> 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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