Re: [xbiblio-devel] Expanding Page Range Formats

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@gm...>]

I don't see a problem with adding new algorithms. That's the whole point
behind that feature.

It would be another issue if we had, say, 20 of them. But we only have a
handful?
On Aug 6, 2014 3:29 PM, "Rintze Zelle" <rin...@gm...> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Dunning <and...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > I’m wondering whether the next version of CSL could provide expanded
> support
> > for page range formats.
>
> > I’m sure that one could find some other strange circumstances; there is
> > probably some question of how thorough CSL should be with this.
>
> I'm a bit hesitant to keep adding more and more page range formats.
>
> > Additionally, could the concept of page ranges within CSL be expanded to
> > number ranges in general? I can’t think of any reason, for instance, why
> one
> > wouldn’t want the style’s number range format to apply to a date range as
> > well, and there are some odd cases where it would be applicable to a
> volume,
> > issue, or series number range.
>
> My gut feeling is that it's better to have separate definitions of
> range formatting for dates and all other numbers, so that they can be
> configured separately. Volume, issue, and series number ranges don't
> come up very often (in practice and in citation manuals), so we
> haven't really thought about whether the page-range-format should
> affect them.
>
> Rintze
>
>
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