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From: Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re:  bibliography again: “von” and “van”
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:53:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19nd3vk18kbt7$.dlg@nililand.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADAJKhB-WJdYUND_kKHxU3CVDFCGL9LOiz4w3q4h+EVNoZ=XQw@mail.gmail.com>

Am Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:06:59 +0100 schrieb BPJ:

> How is a prefix identified as such with this technique? 

biber uses the btparse library
(http://search.cpan.org/~ambs/Text-BibTeX-0.70/btparse/doc/bt_split_names.pod)
and prefixes ("von-Parts") are more or less identifyed by lowercase
letters (as in bibtex, see also tamethebeast.pdf). I actually run
once into a problem with a lowercase name which biber didn't like:
https://github.com/plk/biber/issues/43 

There are some tricks, like \uppercase{d}, commands, braces, which
one can use to fine-tune the name parsing.

> Is there a hardcoded list somewhere or is it "name begins with a
> 'word' in lowercase". IMHO it would be desirable that the prefix
> itself could be specified in a field.

Well the main problem is that authors are name *lists*, and that
there can be more then one name list in an entry. 

But biblatex is extensible. You can, if you want, define a new field
say "authorprefixes={de,von,none,Bbla}" and then write suitable
macros that uses this prefixes instead of the one parsed from the
name. But I doubt that it is really needed. One shouldn't
overcomplicate a system only to catch every special case. 



-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-29 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-27 18:20 Jörg Weger
2015-01-27 19:16 ` Keith Schultz
2015-01-27 20:11   ` Jörg Weger
2015-01-28 12:00     ` Ulrike Fischer
2015-01-29 12:06       ` BPJ
2015-01-29 12:53         ` Ulrike Fischer [this message]
2015-01-27 20:50   ` Hans Hagen
2015-01-28  3:10     ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-01-28  5:03       ` Jörg Weger
2015-01-28 10:15       ` Keith Schultz
2015-01-31 10:18       ` Hans Hagen
2015-01-28  4:51     ` Jörg Weger
     [not found] <mailman.1.1422442801.15564.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2015-01-29  9:29 ` Robert Blackstone

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