Hi,
I got the following request from a user:----
when disambiguating names (i.e., adding the first initial before a name in
in-text citations), is there a way to put a non-breaking space between the
initial and the last name? It looks odd when a line ends with a single
letter…
This sounds like a potentially useful feature and I couldn’t find any
reference to it in the CSL spec.
Steve
I can’t recall having ever discussed this, and I can’t find any posts on it
in the xbiblio archive.
I tried to disprove the need for this feature by looking at my own
publications, but I discovered a different use of non-breaking spaces. "My"
journal uses them between author initials (see e.g. references 15 and 36 of
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/76/16/5383 : there are no cases where
initials are split over multiple lines, but lines may end with initials.
Non-breaking spaces aren’t included after the last initial, between name
particles, or between the last name particle and the family name-part).
RintzeOn Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Steve Ridout <@Steve_Ridout>wrote:
Probably because it doesn’t often happen in practice.
I don’t see any need to add it to the CSL syntax, so the only other
place is to add some language to the actual spec. What precise
language would you suggest?
Bruce