Show first initial rather than first name - is this possible?

annie.berry

Hello, can anyone help answer whether it is possible to amend CSL to show a first initial only, no full stop, then last name. Rather than full first name and last name?
My style is here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/annie-berry/ofstedhousestyle/main/v1

It seems to be around line 37 but I can't work out if this can be amended.
Thanks in advance

adamsmith

(if you have multiple questions about the same style, easier to put them, numbered, in a single post)

initialize-with="" set on name

annie.berry

Thank you, so would it look like this, adding it in to line 40?

39 names variable="author"
40 initialise-with=""
41 name and="text" name-as-sort-order="first"/
42 label form="short" suffix="." prefix=", "/

Apologies - good to know. I did put them both in a single post last week (though didn't number them) and assumed maybe that was why I had no response, so decided to try them separately

adamsmith

40, yes

(if you link to the standard view on github rather than the raw one, we can see the line numbers by default)

annie.berry

Great, thanks.
Does this work?
https://github.com/annie-berry/ofstedhousestyle/blob/main/v1

I'm sure that hasn't worked previously and I was advised to link to the raw one

adamsmith

Yes that works (just to be clear, I answered your question above, though) You want the raw link to provide the style for download, the regular link -- the one you just posted -- for people to look at the code.

annie.berry

Yes, thank you - I am just going to try the line 40 amendment.

Thank you that clarifies the link sharing - I now remember that was why I was advised to share the raw file as that was what I was trying to work around at the time. Sorry for the confusion. Very novice user here!

annie.berry

I have tried amending line 40 and have a white space error "need whitespace between attributes". Again not sure what to do. I tried adding the '/' which appears in the lines beneath to see if that works but it doesn't. What am I missing for it to work?

adamsmith

is it updated on github?

adamsmith

Sorry, I hadn't seen that you added code to your exsample above.
initialize-with (American spelling) goes as an attribute into the name line so

<name and="text" name-as-sort-order="first" initialize-with=""/>
Delete the line you added, that's not valid

annie.berry

I hadn't even spotted my spelling. I've tried on a journal and a webpage reference and that isn't working, it still shows the full name.
Should there be a space between the " "?
Maybe there is a further line interfering elsewhere

adamsmith

If you're looking at the footnotes, you also need to add this in contributors-note (l. 71)

annie.berry

Awesome - yes it was the footnotes and that has now worked. Thanks again