> 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. sigh. troublemaker. "inits=t t c", and journal B can cycle over the elements adding dots? > * 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 \author{type=collab, name=The ITER Team} or \collab{name=The ITER Team} > ITER Joint Central Team, presented by A. U. Thor um. tricky one. our DTD has a tag for this. i am tempted to say \author{type=presenter,surname=Thor,forename=A U} > A. U. Thor and ITER Joint Central Team > > to put the presenting author first regardless of the ordering > in the original paper. ah, now ordering of authors is hard... i am assuming natural order, if in doubt. we didnt promise to generate a BibTeX heade from the frontmatter > \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}} well, you solved it yourself. there comes a point where you have to giev up and use a \note, perhaps. > (This is indeed a real life example, not something that I've made up.) oh, i believe you. i bet the wretches publish with Elsevier.... another one i am not happy about is shared departments: A U THor Dept Chemistry B L User Dept Physics University of Noddyland i really dont see a clean markup for this sebastian