Re: Ibidem: multiple versions of author's name

[David Mackinder <davemack>]

Elka,

the way Ibidem is generating subsequent citations of the two Baer works is
strictly in accordance with the way you have written the information in your
Ibidem record(s). So I assume from your message that you are getting
something like 'Baer, Fritz, short title of sourcebook, p. #' and 'Baer,
Yitzhak, short title of history, p. #'.

What you need to do is to fool the program into 'turning a blind eye' to the
problematic forenames. This means doing what you indicate you're not keen
to, namely amending Ibidem records and editing and freezing first citations.

Try amending your database so that in the relevant two Ibidem records the
author fields read 'Baer,  <[aka Yitzhak Baer]>' and respectively (that is,
have a single space after the comma and before the angle bracket).

(A refinement of this method would be to copy the two records that use the
correct names so that you've got 'proper', conventional master records in
your database; you'll then have four records -- two accurate, and two
dummies, and you'll be using the dummies to solve your problem. You might
also like to add brief explanatory notes to your annotation fields.)

When you first cite each record, use the tickbox to 'override dynamic
updating', then insert into each citation 'Fritz' and 'Yitzhak' as
appropriate. As a precaution, to avoid the possibility of confusion -- but
I'll bet you're as sharp as a tack, really -- insert into your text a
non-printing annotation with a note to remind you what you've done.

For subsequent citations, the program will happily differentiate your Baer
works without insisting on adding a forename or initial, so you should have
citations that take the form 'Baer, Sourcebook, p. 34', 'Baer, History, p.
103'.

Elka Klein wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a solution to the problem of dealing with authors with
> multiple versions of their names.
>
> The most common one in my work is Yitzhak Baer, whose sourcebook was
> published in Germany under the name Fritz Baer, but whose history of the
> JEws in Spain was published under the name Yitzhak, the name he used for
> all publications after he left Germany.
>
> So, I have the former entered as Baer, Fritz [Yitzhak] and the latter as
> Baer, Yitzhak.
>
> This generates the first reference to each work very properly. But the
> hundreds of subsequent references, which I would like to appear simply
> with
>
> Baer, short title, p #
>
> appear instead with the first names too (as if they were two different
> people.
>
> Obviously, I can go through and manually change all of the citations and
> then freeze them, but given that I cite both works hundreds of times,
> that's not a good move.
>
> I can change the original in Ibidem, and manually change the first
> citation, and freeze it, but I'm likely to get confused if I do that.
>
> Has anyone come up with a better solution than either of these to this
> problem?
>
> Elka