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

onsdag 28 januari 2015 skrev Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de>:

> Am Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:11:03 +0100 schrieb Jörg Weger:
>
> > how would you “set up an entry properly” in a BibTeX file where you have
> > only one field for author/editor (serious question!)?
>
> In biblatex/biber you could setup the entries like this:
>
> @book{goethe,
>  author={von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang},
>  title={Faust},
>  year={1775}
>  }
>
> @book{halen,
>  author={van Halen, Edward},
>  title={Title},
>  year={1775},
>  options = {useprefix=true}
>  }
>
> Then you get "Goethe" and "van Halen".
>
> (It is not a perfect solution: assume a book from Goethe and van
> Halen then you would have to use braces to save the "van":
> author={von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang and {van Halen}, Edward},
>
>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
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