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In a previous article someone writes:
>>>Fine, but if you have your style set to authors initials (A. B.) you will
>>>get:
>>>Gaulle, C. d. and not Gaulle, C. de!
>>But, you should not have either Gaulle, C. d. or Gaulle, C. de.
>>What you should have is:
>>de Gaulle, C.

This effect should be easily accomplished by useing a non-breaking space
between the e and the G, so "de Gaulle" is treated as a single name (word).
On a mac you get this by option-space.  Won't this work?

As for other forms of non-standard initials, such as "Yu." for "Yuri", this
is a problem only because of the translation from the author's native language
into ASCII.  The problem should go away as soon as Unicode becomes supported,
which will have the correct characters for this case.  I understand Spanish
names may have similar problems using "ll", etc.  However, Unicode support
may be a long way away for products such as EndNote, so other solutions
would probably be welcome.  Here's one:

When entering names for authors, editors, translators, etc., allow Endnote
user's to mark the initials; the default behavior would be to use the first
letter just as is done now.  To mark the initials of a name, you can adopt
any of of several schemes:
1) Allow a special joining character, such as option-quote: Y'uri ==> Yu.
2) Allow a special delimitor such as option-quote: Yu'ri ==> Yu.
3) Allow extra fields in comma form for special initials:
	LastName, Yuri Ivan, Jr, Yu. I ==> Yu. I. LastName, Jr.

Wayne Pollock (The MAD Scientist)
Internet:	pollock@csee.usf.edu