And of course, now that we have a spiffy new authority file format, we
can give the correct abbreviated form explicitly inside a <ref
variantType="abbreviation">. (I think. The intro to the draft schema
says it "generally" applies to titles, but it doesn't say
"exclusively.")

>>> [log in to unmask] 2004-06-11 10:33:43 >>>
OK, I was playing with a solution to initialized names earlier. Logic
is:

All given names have their own nameParts.
If such namePart only contains one character, it is understood to be
initialized.
If not, it is not initialized.

Is that generalizable?

Bruce