Re: Inconsistent Japanese name order in v13 contributors list

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:31:31AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-Sep-18, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > This thread from 2015 is the most comprehensive discussion I remember of
> > Japanese name ordering, including a suggestion to use small caps:
> >
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20150613231826.GY133018%40postgresql.org#88d245a5cdd2b32e1e3e80fc07eab6f2
> >
> > I have been following this guidance ever since.
>
> Right.
>
> About smallcaps, we didn't do it then because there was no way known to
> us to use them in our then-current toolchain. But we've changed now to
> XML and apparently it is possible to use them -- we could try something
> like <emphasis role="caps_lastname"> and define a CSS rule like
>
> .caps_lastname {font-variant: small-caps;}

Yes, that's what I use for CSS.

> (Apparently you also need to set 'emphasis.propagates.style' to 1 in the
> stylesheet). This does it for HTML. You also need some FO trick to
> cover the PDF (probably something like what a042750646db did to change
> catalog_table_entry formatting.)

Yeah, we have PDF output to worry about too. It is easy in LaTeX.

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