Hello everybody,
today, I encountered a problem with surnames containing an additional "title" (sorry, don't know the appropriate word in English). Suppose we've got an author "Ruud van Nistelrooy". His name is correctly shown in the /admin/settings/biblio/author/ listing as "van Nistelrooy, R". In the "edit author"-page, the following fields are filled out: Prefix="van", Firstname="Ruud", Lastname="Nistelrooy", Complete Name="Ruud van Nistelrooy".
The problem now is in the publications view, the author name is shown as "Nistelrooy, R", thereby omitting the "van". Changing the styles doesn't solve the problem. For me, the only way to get around this is to change his surname to "van Nistelrooy" with the consequence that the author is now listed under "v" and not under "n" where some unknowing users would maybe look for it. Don't know if this is really an issue. Was just wondering what the "prefix" - field in the author edit section was for.
Thanks,
Chris
Comments
Comment #1
rjerome commentedOppps, that was my fault, it's fixed now.
You should keep the "van" in the prefix field.
Ron.
Comment #2
Glowy commentedThanks a lot!