Re: names

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Herb Bernstein notes:

>The convention for names is given as "family name(s) followed by a
>comma, preceded the first name(s) or initial(s)."

and then goes on to discuss the problems of suffixes and multiple
family names.  This convention is also incomplete for some Oriental
name conventions, where the family name is the first name.

There are several ways of solving this in the bibliographic literature;
as usual on problems of classification, the librarians hit it first.
We just need to pick one . . . I favor the one used by EndNote, and
other programs of this ilk, where everything up to a comma is parsed as
one primary name, and things which follow the first comma are taken in
order as leading names or initials.  I have some experience with
unsatisfactory alternatives . . . my name is very commonly mangled in
the bibliographic literature by people and/or programs that do not
understand multi-word names.

Lynn F. Ten Eyck (teneyck@sdsc.edu)    Tel: (619) 534-8189
San Diego Supercomputer Center         FAX: (619) 534-8193
P.O. Box 85608
San Diego, CA 92186-9784

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