Re: localisation of "and others" in biblatex name lists

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The main linguistic problem I can see is that the proper form of 'others'
may be gender dependent for some languages. In Icelandic it would be
feminine, masculine or neuter depending on whether the list of others is
all female, all male or mixed. You could fudge it by always using neuter,
and for other languages whichever form is used for groups of indeterminate
gender, but the results may seem odd to native speakers. This kind of
uneasy compromises because of insufficient data are of course common in
computing, but should be considered.

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Den tis 23 feb. 2021 15:45 <denis.maier-FfwAq0itz3ofv37vnLkPlQ@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> Yes, inputwise open ended name list are not supported by CSL at the
> moment. If I understand the code correctly, Pandoc splits bibtex name lists
> at "and" at the moment, with the "others" being returned as `Just
> "others"`. Shouldn't it be possible to translate that string? Or to throw
> an error/warning  message?
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> Von: 'Nick Bart' via pandoc-discuss <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Februar 2021 15:21:29
> An: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
> Betreff: Re: localisation of "and others" in biblatex name lists
>
> IIRC pandoc does not try to convert "and others" from bibtex or biblatex
> to CSL since the CSL specs just don’t seem to support abbreviating a list
> of authors with a placeholder - and I for one can’t really think of a
> sensible way of handling this automatically.
>
> In effect, CSL assumes that it’s always possible to include a full list of
> authors in one’s database. Unless the names of the "others" are genuinely
> unobtainable, I guess that would be the way to go in this case, too.
>
> What CSL does support is abbreviating lists of authors when formatting
> bibliographies. So if the number of authors seems too large to be included
> in the output, one could always try to find (or modify) a CSL style that
> renders an abbreviated list only.
>
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