Names with Label -- Delimiter not working with mixed roles

pauli · December 5, 2015

I have a citation style that uses mixed roles:

<names variable="editor author" suffix=": " font-style="italic">
<name name-as-sort-order="all" sort-separator=", " delimiter=" / "/>
<label form="short" prefix=" (" suffix=")"/>
</names>

The problem is: If there are mixed roles, e.g. one editor and one author, then there is no delimiter between the two names. The author name will be rendered immediately after the label of the editor -- without delimiter.

Is that a bug or intended?
How can I get a delimiter between the names?

adamsmith · December 5, 2015

set the delimiter on names to set the one between different creator types...

edit: though note that the label only gets printed once, so this is going to be rather confusing. What are you trying to get as an end result?

pauli · December 6, 2015

Thanks a lot! That works well.

adamsmith · December 6, 2015

<names variable="editor author" delimiter=" / " suffix=": " font-style="italic">
    <name name-as-sort-order="all" sort-separator=", " delimiter=" / "/>
    <label form="short" prefix=" (" suffix=")"/>
</names>

if you want to set a specific delimiter between authors and editors.

But this is going to give you something like

Smith, Adam / Marx, Karl (eds.)/ Ricardo, David / Luxemburg, Rosa

even if the book was edited by Marx and Smith, which seems very confusing to me. Hence the question what you actually want this to look like.

pauli · December 6, 2015

I agree that it may be confusing.
I just have books that have editors and authors in the title info.
Maybe I will use a different delimiter for the <names> tag than for the <name> tag.
I will think about it.

Thanks for your quick help! :)

adamsmith · December 6, 2015

The typical way to deal with books that have authors, editors, and translators is something like this:

Borges, Jorge Luis. 1999. Selected Non-Fictions. Edited by Eliot Weinberger. Translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger. 3rd ed. New York: Viking.

(This is Chicago Manual of Style's author-date version), i.e. adding editors and other creators after the book title.