Normalize author names and "et al" Authors
akleinwaechter - April 25, 2008 - 08:39
| Project: | Bibliography Module |
| Version: | 5.x-1.9 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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Description
Hi,
first of all I like this module very much. We use your module to organize the library of "doctors without borders".
My problem: We have a lot of publications with additional authors.
Example:
Authors: Gross, R.; et al
The function _biblio_parse_authors formats the output in this way:
Authors: Gross, R.; al, e.
Is there a way to use the normalization function and format "et al" in the right way? I tried to customize your function, but my php knowledge is quite poor. An idea could be to nest names which shouldn't be reformattet in special escape characters like:
R. Gross; #et al#
or
R. Gross; "et al"
Best regards
Alexander Kleinwächter
Médecins Sans Frontières / Aerzte ohne Grenzen e.V.
#1
Your not the first person to run into this, I just fixed it in the -dev version and will probably create a new release fairly soon since there have been a number of bug fixes recently.
Ron.
#2
Thats great!
Thank you Ron. There is no bibliography solution out there comparing to yours!
Alex
#3
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.
#4
Thank for fixing this in 1.16
But it would be great to have what was suggested above: disbling formatting for quotted strings, so that one can display correctly the name of authors consortium correctly, for example
instead of
Thank you very much for any feeback,
Thomas
#5
I'd like to second the feature request, currently we enter author names that shouldn't be normalised with underscores, e.g. Agentschap_voor_Geografische_Informatie_Vlaanderen in stead of Agentschap voor Geografische Informatie Vlaanderen which gets formatted to Vlaanderen, A.v.G.I..
Using underscores works but is not very pretty and confusing when doing a search. So it would be very helpful to be able to escape parts of the author string.