Thank you very much, Hans.
I think I had tried something with double braces before (I use them also
for German booktitles to keep upper and lowercase intact) but only now I
got it working:
Writing both
“author = {{Johann Wolfgang von} Goethe}”
and
“author = {Goethe, {Johann Wolfgang von}}”
in the BibTeX are easy workarounds for the problem I was describing. I
can happily live with that. In case a problem like that arises I will
anyway first take a look at the according BibTeX entry.
Greetings Jörg
On 27.01.2015 21:50, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 1/27/2015 8:16 PM, Keith Schultz wrote:
Hi Jörg,
Though, generally, the von, as well as a few others, are nobility
particles in Germany, but not necessarily always
noblility particles, but at times signify the place where a persons
ancestor came from!
Now, in the case Goethe you are right that he was ennobled. Therefore
the von is not truly part of his name.
He should be listed as you rightly mentioned under Goethe and not "von
Goethe“.
It is impossible for a bibliographic system to handle this, so there
is no switch for it!
you can try to wrap thing that belong together in { } ... it might work
So, it is up to the author of a text to set up his entries properly,
by putting the von in the right part of the name field.
indeed, not all can be catched in a poorly specified format
btw, context loads the bib data in memory and fields of type author get
split into multiple authors and each is split into parts; most magic is
under our own control so we can always add variants if needed (maybe
some prefix that indicates a german name or so) but anyway this whole
von business is on our agenda
Hans
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