(j3.2006) authors are people

Dan Nagle danlnagle
Tue Oct 1 07:26:55 EDT 2013


Hi,

As per 13-315, first-name last-name [& first-name last-name]...

On Oct 1, 2013, at 01:41 , Malcolm Cohen <malcolm at NAG-J.CO.JP> wrote:

>> Let me remind everyone that Authors of J3 papers are people,
>> not groups.
> 
> Assuming you are not taking aim just at the single paper with a group author 
> (329), I see 3 papers where the pattern matcher for paper202.txt got the wrong 
> word to use as an author, and many papers with dual authorship but the pattern 
> matcher only got the second one.
> 
> Are we now supposed to tailor the "From:" field to precisely match the vagaries 
> of the pattern matcher?
> 
> In the recent past we've had many papers with dual authorship expressed in the 
> forms
>    Author One, Another Two
>    Author One/Another Two
> and less frequently subgroup-authored papers with a primary author variously 
> expressed as
>   Author Prime for Subgroup
>   Author Prime/Subgroup
> 
> If we want to pander to the pattern matcher those should be
>   Author/Another One/Two
> and
>   Author Prime/Subgroup
> I would guess...
> 
> What is the Librarian's pleasure?
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> ................................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo. 
> 
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Cheers!
Dan Nagle









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