Sebastian writes:

> \author{surname=Rahtz, inits=S.,
>     mainauthor=true,
>     forename=Sebastian Patrick,
>     qual=AJFL,
>     title={},
>     address=add1, affiliation=aff1}

Nice idea, but what about journals that print initials withouth dots?
In the IOP physics journal, they print author names like "T T C Jones",
so if you say \author{surname=Jones, inits=T.T.C.}, your're already
encoding some part of the presentation, not just the information.


Some other \frontmatter problems that haven't been mentioned so far:

* What about papers representing a team effort?  In the proceedings
  issues of plasma physics journals you often find something like

      <author list> and the ITER Joint Central Team and Home Teams

  or even

      ITER Joint Central Team, presented by A. U. Thor

  Such papers, especially the latter kind, always cause headaches
  if you want to encode them in a BibTeX database, especially if
  some other journals prefer to cite such paper as

      A. U. Thor and ITER Joint Central Team

  to put the presenting author first regardless of the ordering
  in the original paper.


* What about address records containing some sort of common element
  that should be placed as a footnote to several address blocks.
  For instance, given authors from three labs working in cooperation,

     \address{id=lab1,address=Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany}
     \address{id=lab2,address=Ecole Royale Militaire, Belgium}
     \address{id=lab3,address=FOM Institut voor Plasmafysica, Netherlands}

  the official policy may ask for a footnote such as

     \note{id={lab1,lab2,lab3},
       text={partners in the Trilaterial Euregio Cluster}}

  (This is indeed a real life example, not something that I've made up.)


Just a reminder that there a still a number of extra complications waiting
to be resolved in an all-encompassing fronmatter spec.

Cheers, Ulrik.