Is it possible to render name-part affixes in Japanese author names?

[frianasoa]

@Bruce_D_Arcus1

You could consider opening up a draft pull request for citeproc-js on github?

Thanks for your suggestion. I will do that later.

my obvious question would be about generalizing it beyond Japanese; how would that work?

I have not thought of generalizing. Since parts of zh and ja were already hardcoded, I just thought of a way to give more freedom in the csl use, or a better default if we need to do hardcoding. The function _renderJapaneseName could be written as _renderCJKName if there are common issues in Chinese and/or Korean regarding the default, but this will need inputs from people who know the other two languages.

@Frank_Bennett

Thank you for your input.

The threading works seem to have lost the context, but I’ve never encountered a need for affixes (like Jr or III) in Japanese

I am sorry the title (my initial intent) is confusing. I do not know if I need to open a new thread but to summarize, I am interested in the following topic.
→ “Rendering contributors in Kanji, Katakana, and English (with different styles) in one Japanese document”

I do not know if this already has a solution but I am detailing my problem below.

It’s perfectly possible that I missed something there, but in any case the CSL-M spec and the processor do not anticipate them.

At first, I was asking for the ability to render name-part affixes because I wanted to have this punctuation 「・」（中黒） between first name and family name for katakana, without manually tweaking the entry. But I realized that was not my only problem when rendering Japanese. So I proposed the changes above. I will do a pull request once I am sure my proposal makes sense for Japanese users .

As far as I know, when we write a Japanese article, we mainly encounter the four kinds of contributors below. Tweaking the csl file, I could not achieve (2) and (3) at the same time as the others.

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1. Japanese names

（栗本 2006）

栗本英世（2006）「戦後スーダンの政治的動態―包括的平和協定の調停から一年三カ月を経て」『海外事情』54(4):77–92.

2. Non Japanese katakana names

（ジャクソンほか 2019）

ジャクソン, マイケル、ハリー・ポッター、テイラー・スウィフト（1956=2019）『世界的人気はなぜ生まれるのか』柴田元幸訳 、大阪大学出版会.

3. Non Japanese romanesque name in translation (Not common in my field and I was not aware of this until I saw @mayfair’s input)

（Morgan & Patrov 2023）

Morgan, Casey & Alexei Patrov（2022=2023）『自由意志の哲学』鈴木真紀訳 、東京: 城南大学出版会.

4. English entry

（McClure et al. 1985）

McClure, Arthur F., James R. Chrisman & Perry Mock（1985）Education for Work: The Historical Evolution of Vocational and Distributive Education in America. New Jersey: Associated University Press.

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I have tried to play with csl files and got purely Japanese entries (1) and purely English entries (4) with the help of conditions. However, I could never get the other forms. Solving this is what I am proposing in the code below.

https://github.com/frianasoa/citeproc-js

I might also have missed other forms of citation that could be considered or even some easier ways to deal with this issue.

The following thread seems to be related to this issue (the affixing part) but I am not sure how it was solved at the end.

East Asian author names and white space for separation

CSL makes a difference between names written in East Asian writing systems (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) such that delimiters like ", " between family name and given name are collapsed. This is basically a good idea, since it reflects the tradition of writing these names. Still, an option to separate East Asian names (with whitespace and/or symbols like ・) is vital. Many styles require such a separation. Korean names are most often separated this way. Western names transscribed to Japanese (in …

Thank you for your time.