Re: [docbook-apps] Minor problem with <honorific>

From
Michael(tm) Smith <>
Date
2007-08-03T04:10:27+00:00
ID
20070803040959.GB6095@sideshowbarker
Thread
Re: [docbook-apps] Minor problem with <honorific>
Ron Catterall <>, 2007-08-02 15:57 -0500:

>    This code in the <biblioentry>
>    <author><personname><honorific>Sir</honorific><firstname>Israel</firstname><surname>Gollancz</surname></personname></author>
>    produces:            Sir. Israel Gollancz
>    The . inserted automatically may be OK for Dr. or Prof., but is definitely
>    out of place with Sir.  Why not omit the . and use
>    <honorific>Dr.</honorific> when a . is required.

You can suppress that period by setting an empty value for the
punct.honorific parameter -

  http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/punct.honorific.html
  http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/punct.honorific.html