As far as I know, biblatex allows the use of a "language" field and capitalizes the name prefixes accordingly.
Carsten Am Sonntag, den 31.10.2010, 16:15 +0100 schrieb Pierre Morel: > Hello > > Here is another thesis-related question, but in a different mail, because the > subject is completely different. > > My thesis is French and English, and I use the biblatex package for the > bibliography (with the apa style and the natbib option). > Everything goes as wanted, but for the names with prefixes (example : "van > Opstal", "Pi Ku", etc...). > In French, the names are supposed to be in small capitals, however, the "van" > and "pi" of the examples above are in lower case, while the rest of the name > is in small capitals (with of course a "big" capital at the beginning) : I > have for example (van OPSTAL, 1989), which is rather ugly. > I noticed that the prefixes are stored in a different field in the .bbl file > and that I could prevent the problem by moving the prefix back in the name > field, but this workaround is VERY tedious and not perfect. > > So is there a way to have a proper handling of these composed names with my > current settings ? > > Thanks > > Pierre > > PS : last, when not used with the first name and initials, the "van" should > be capitalized "Van", which is not the case (but this problem is of less > importance) > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Carsten Ziegert Association SIL / Chad mobile: +235 63.78.58.00 skype : carstenzi http://www.sil.org -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
