Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-11-01 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
e following: indeed, in Dutch it is common to > capitalize the first letter of the "von"-part if the format > is "last name, first name". Thus: > > > > W.F.G. van Rooijen  - but > > Van Rooijen, W.F.G. > > > > In The Netherlands, my name wo

Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-11-01 Thread Pierre Morel
; Van Rooijen, W.F.G. > > In The Netherlands, my name would be sorted under "R". In your example, you'd > have "Van Opstal, ...", but to my mind "VAN OPSTAL, ..." looks weird. In that > case, I would prefer "Van OPSTAL", because the &#

Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-10-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
e (in Dutch it is know as a "tussenvoegsel", "intermediate part"). Wilfred --- On Mon, 1/11/10, Pierre Morel wrote: > From: Pierre Morel > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de) > To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other

Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-10-31 Thread Pierre Morel
Isn't the language field used for the hyphenation of the title of the article ? This is different from the language of the text in which an article is cited (using named references). Indeed, biblatex handles that well (this is why I picked it) : in the french part it uses small capitals for the

Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-10-31 Thread Carsten Ziegert
As far as I know, biblatex allows the use of a "language" field and capitalizes the name prefixes accordingly. Carsten Am Sonntag, den 31.10.2010, 16:15 +0100 schrieb Pierre Morel: > Hello > > Here is another thesis-related question, but in a different mail, because the > subject is completely

[XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-10-31 Thread Pierre Morel
Hello Here is another thesis-related question, but in a different mail, because the subject is completely different. My thesis is French and English, and I use the biblatex package for the bibliography (with the apa style and the natbib option). Everything goes as wanted, but for the names with