I forgot to mention one solution we could use in GnuMed: Attach another name to a person (they can have any number of names), put the initials in one of the fields and mark that name (eg set the comment) to be only initials.
Not clean but doable. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
