<personname>

The <personname> tag marks up a person’s name so PreTeXt can format it consistently wherever it appears. It is common in <author> metadata and in <biblio> entries.

Use <personname> instead of plain text when the name identifies a person rather than functioning as ordinary prose.

Syntax

Attributes

Children

Parents

Examples

This theorem is commonly attributed to
<personname>Évariste Galois</personname>.

<biblio>
    <author><personname>Katherine Johnson</personname></author>
    <title>Orbital Computation Notes</title>
    <year>1962</year>
</biblio>