Hi, On Montag, 10. Dezember 2007, Geraint North wrote: > Out of interest, what do people use the firstname/surname/lastname/ > givenname distinction for? In Docbook, its main use is clearly to > identify document authors visually on the page. The only other > application I could see is if you wanted to produce a sorted list of > authors, but quite why you'd want to do that, I'm unsure.
Some books have a sorted list of authors at the end. It's some kind of an index. For this purpose you have to sort it somehow. :) Bye, Tom -- Thomas Schraitle --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
