# Scope of formatting set on the cs:name-part elements

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/scope-of-formatting-set-on-the-cs-name-part-elements/820>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [February 12, 2010, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/scope-of-formatting-set-on-the-cs-name-part-elements/820 "2010-02-12T07:15:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rintze\_Zelle1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Rintze\_Zelle1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Rintze_Zelle1)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/scope-of-formatting-set-on-the-cs-name-part-elements/820/1 "2010-02-12T07:15:23Z")

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I think we never agreed on the scope of formatting set on the cs:name-part  
elements. CSL is currently limited to the “family” and “given” name-parts.  
Would it be okay if:

- formatting set on the “family”-name-part affects not only the “family"  
name-part, but also the particles (both the “dropping-particle” and the  
"non-dropping-particle”), even when these are nonadjacent
- the suffix name-part is unaffected by formatting on the name-part elements

With the code

you would then get names like “MARTINIÈRE Jr., Gérard DE LA” (here “Jr.” is  
the suffix, “de” the dropping-particle, and “la” the non-dropping-particle).

Rintze