Re: citestyle's BIBLIOSEQUENCE sorts upper and lower alpha separately

Quoting Jeremy Malcolm <[email protected]>:

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

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

regards,
Markus



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