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Capitalized "and" after period (.) in name or initial #16

Closed montdor closed 5 years ago

montdor commented 6 years ago

I've come across a problem wherein if there is a period after someone's initial (be it middle initial or an initial for their first name) the "and" directly following it is capitalized. E.g. if the article is written by John J. Doe and Jane D. Smith, the citation will read: Doe, John J. And Smith, Jane D.

jspitz commented 6 years ago

can you please upload an example file?

jspitz commented 6 years ago

It's a biblatex issue. Biblatex only supports to output all author names with initials (via giveninits=true), or none (default). If giveninits=true biblatex either expects the full name in the bibliography (John James Doe) or initial without dot (John J Doe). In both cases, all given names will be abbreviated (J. J. Doe) and an abbreviation dot will be added (which will leave "and" lowercased).

If you want initials only for some entries (without giveninits=true), you need to use the macro \adddot rather than a literal dot: John J\adddot Doe. Note that you also need to use the macro in the \plauthorname macro then.

Closing this ticket, since it's not something we can tackle in biblatex-publist.

montdor commented 6 years ago

It doesn't look like that's the specific issue, as when i change everything to not use biblatex-publist, it exports as expected vis-a-vis the periods and the lowercase 'and' (except for the highlighted name and the sorting by month and year, of course, which is why this package is so awesome). I'll try and get a file uploaded that's deidentified if you think that would help at all.

jspitz commented 6 years ago

You might be right.

jspitz commented 5 years ago

Fixed in 1.12. All that was needed is \isdot after the respective name part.