Bob Stayton wrote:
Where is DocBook going? Perhaps deferring to an external standard such
as xNAL, merged into DocBook 5 as an optional module:
http://xml.coverpages.org/xnal.html
Which will give you better semantic markup.
Nothing on locale specific presentation Bob?
Nor does it address the more general issue of complex parameters?
Quote, a request from a Hungarian user re name presentation.
My bigger problem is, that even by playing around with the name order,
I cannot have all my relative's names appear correctly, because of an
apparent lack of "functional" tagging of non-family/non-patronymic
names.
i.e.:
PÉNZVÁLTÓ Eszter Johanna Mária
PÉNZVÁLTÓ <--- family name
Eszter <--- Saint's Name chosen at Catholic Confirmation
Johanna <--- Secondary Given Name
Mária <---- Primary Given Name
... which basically means, that the proper way to "anglicize" or
"westernize" the word order would be:
Mária Johanna Eszter PÉNZVÁLTÓ
Basically reversing everything... of course, since given names are
lumped together, the closest I can do is:
Eszter Johanna Mária PÉNZVÁLTÓ
Which, I think, gives the impression that the person's "first name" /
"primary given name" is Eszter... the only name in her list of given
names that isn't even functionally a "first name", but is rather a
"middle name" in the religious sense.
This is, in my mind, not just a *display convention*. The name order
is a fundamental property of the name. (e.g.: Mao Zedong's family
name is Mao [yes, really!], and Zedong is his first name.) For more
info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_order#Name_order
end quote.
regards
--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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