Re: [libreoffice-users] How to abbreviate the first name of the author?

Hi, Jay,

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 16:38 -0400, planas wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 17:48 +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote:
> > for a paper I have to only render the Initials of the first name in the
> > list of references:
> >
> >   At the place of:  Anderson, David
> >   I have to use:    Anderson, D.
> >
> > Any idea how to do that with the bibliography tools of libre office?
>
> Is it practical to the replace feature EDIT>>FIND&REPLACE to replace the
> name with the initial?

Editing everything by hand was what I wanted to avoid.  But it looks as
if this might be the easiest way to solve the problem for smaller
documents...

Thanks for your answer!

Dietrich

> -- 
> Jay Lozier
> jslozier@gmail.com



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