Biblatex's disambiguation of names uses, by default, the abbreviation of other name parts when a labelname becomes ambiguous. But, unfortunately it adds the abbreviation dot even in one letter words. For example, in Portuguese one can find names with the preposition "e" (stands for "and" in English). And biblatex inappropriately "abbreviates" it as "e."
How can I remove the abbreviation dot in this case?
A MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authortitle]{biblatex}
\usepackage[brazilian]{babel}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{Silva2000,
author = {Silva, Edmundo de Macedo Soares e},
title = {Title},
date = {2000},
}
@book{Silva2010,
author = {Silva, Ligia Osorio},
title = {Title 2},
date = {2010},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\footcites{Silva2000}{Silva2010}
\end{document}
de Macedo Soares e
is not really a first name (that's where it is currently) and not really the 'primary' last name either. So to get this right one might have to define new name parts: tex.stackexchange.com/q/313176/35864, tex.stackexchange.com/a/288041/35864, tex.stackexchange.com/q/320693/35864 – moewe Feb 22 '18 at 13:46\bibinitperiod
after lower-case one-letter name bits, but I'm not sure that is possible/desirable. All of this already happens in the Biber stages,biblatex
can't really do anything about this. – moewe Feb 22 '18 at 13:50